Narend Singh | 08 July 2020 Narend Singh says current anti-corruption structures are slow to react The losing battle against corruption: Now more than ever we need an integrity commission 8 July 2020 The devastating impact of many years of corruption have left an...
LETTER: Without a Chapter 9 Integrity Commission, state thievery will continue
It is a poor reflection on SA’s commitment to clean up after the Zuma era that Steinhoff is paying for a probe of its own malfeasance by its own previous directors 23 June 2020 - 17:21 In your editorial in praise of the VBS Mutual Bank initial prosecutions, the...
When Hawks have their wings clipped and vultures circle, let eagles fly
Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 25 May 2020 There is a culture of corruption with impunity abroad in SA. The ‘workaround’ solutions suggested by civil society have value, but until the impunity is addressed, the vultures will continue to circle the public purse, the...
Mo Shaik and me – a cautionary tale
Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 7 April 2020 A close encounter with Mo Shaik and the later shutting down of the Scorpions have important parallels for the current debate around how to proceed with corruption prosecutions. It is conventional for commentators to refrain...
How to put corrupt officials behind bars in double-quick time
Opinionista • Simon Mantell • 3 April 2020 The state can leapfrog conventional prosecutorial gridlock and jail state-owned-enterprise executives and company directors by using a ‘winning ugly’ strategy. South Africans are hopelessly fatigued by the never-ending bad...
The corrupt must go on trial, not be granted amnesty for their crimes
Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 9 March 2020 Granting amnesty for corruption is a fundamentally flawed idea. It is neither accountable nor responsive to change the rules relating to corruption in a way that encourages impunity at a time when the moral and faith-based...
Cyril kicks the corruption can further down the road to ruin.
By Paul Hoffman Paul Hoffman The long-awaited SONA2020 brought no comfort to those who want this year to be the “Year of the Orange Overalls” for the corrupt. This happy state is what Archbishop Thabo Makgoba called for during his Christmas Eve sermon last December....
Reboot required for countering State Capture
By Paul Hoffmann* In the midst of the maelstrom of evidence tumbling out of the ANC’s dirty linen basket at the State Capture Commission (SCC), albeit sullied by “stalingrading” and apparent errors in the SCC’s stuttering administration, it is timely to step back and...
Willie Hofmeyr: Cut president’s sweeping powers or risk state capture
01 December 2019 - 00:01 By QAANITAH HUNTER (TimesLive) The recently retired head of the Asset Forfeiture Unit, Willie Hofmeyr, says SA is at risk of state capture again unless the president's sweeping powers are cut. Hofmeyr told the Sunday Times he recommended the...
Prosecution service can start going after bigwigs among the corrupt
Suspects in grand corruption were not investigated and prosecuted as they should have been 30 July 2019 - 05:10 Paul Hoffman Speaking at an event organised in memory of the late Kader Asmal, our new National Director of Public Prosecutions, Shamila Batoyi, pointed...
ANC of today has all the hallmarks of a criminal enterprise
Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 16 July 2019 Daily Maverick Between the greedy lack of integrity of leaders and the tenets of the National Democratic Revolution in action, it is difficult not to conclude that the ANC-led tripartite alliance is both deliberately...
Vigilantism is not the solution to rampant corruption
Corruption Watch, which has kept watch over corruption in SA since 2012, has reached, and published, a somewhat startling conclusion after surveying the terrible ravages of grand and petty corruption in the country, especially as these twin scourges impact on the...
LETTER: Jacob Zuma gets some of his own medicine
The former president defamed Billy Downer dreadfully in an affidavit filed in his filibustering application for a permanent stay of his prosecution 15 April 2019 - 05:04 (Business Day) Jacob Zuma. Picture: SUPPLIED Karyn Maughan reports that prosecutor Billy Downer,...
LETTER: Voters should not tolerate corruption
The Hawks and the NPA constitute twin structures that have not been — and will never be — fit for countering grand corruption, state capture and kleptocracy in SA 21 March 2019 - 08:00 FinancialMail National Director of Public Prosecutions, Advocate Shamila Batohi....
How the ConCourt dropped the ball on systemic corruption
Koos Malan - Paul Hoffman | 19 March 2019 Koos Malan and Paul Hoffman revisit the majority and minority opinions in "Glenister III" The Concourt contribution to sacrificing the rule of law on the altar of transformationism Helen Suzman Foundation v President of the...
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