Cape Town - The SABC's finances are in such bad shape that it may well end up unable to meet its financial obligations and this will have a negative impact on people who have paid their television licence fees in advance, Advocate Paul Hoffman SC, director of...
What is to be done about corruption?
Paul Hoffman says there needs to be a national Integrity Commission, housed in Chapter Nine of Constitution. Corruption is a crime; it follows that the criminal justice administration is or ought to be the appropriate vehicle for dealing with corruption. It is...
Ramaphosa can set up state capture inquiry himself – Accountability Now
Cape Town - Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa would be within his rights to launch a commission of inquiry into state capture independently of President Jacob Zuma, according to the Institute for Accountability in Southern Africa. Launching the inquiry, and tackling...
LETTER: Courting inconsistency
While two recent landmark and unanimous full-bench high court judgments are welcome for their outcomes, there is a worrisome inconsistency in reasoning between the two. In the review of the president’s decision to "dis-appoint" Mxolisi Nxasana as national director of...
An anti-corruption court and a TRC for the corrupt – really?
It is reported that the Catholic Bishops Conference favours the establishment of a specialised anti corruption court, while the SA Council of Churches is flirting with the idea of a TRC type process for the corrupt. Both of these proposals have the constitutionalists...
STATEMENT BY THE CITY’S EXECUTIVE MAYOR, PATRICIA DE LILLE
CITY OF CAPE TOWN 31 AUGUST 2017 STATEMENT BY THE CITY’S EXECUTIVE MAYOR, PATRICIA DE LILLE City, Public Protector and SA Human Rights Commission inspect work in Masiphumelele Today I visited Masiphumelele with the Public Protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, and the South...
Ethics commission or Integrity Commission?
The problem at the core of the cancer of corruption currently choking the prospects of peace, progress and prosperity in South Africa is that the incidence of the malady increases in direct proportion to the chances of not being caught. Ismail Lagardien, writing for...
Hoffman scotches Gordhan’s demand for KPMG to fund an anti-corruption unit
CAPE TOWN — Founding director of Accountability Now, Paul Hoffman, SC, applies his considerable legal acumen to the newly-popular call for KPMG to ‘make good,’ on its country-devastating Zuptoid collusion by funding and setting up a private corruption-busting unit....
Fighting the corrupt is a process, not an event
Paul Hoffman says security of tenure critical for any future state anti-corruption agency. An unusually high, and somewhat early, equinox tide of critical commentary concerning corruption is washing over the eyes and ears of active citizens who partake of the...
Masiphumelele Leadership Forum
Masiphumelele Leadership Forum
Corporate SA; it’s time to back a clean-up campaign – Paul Hoffman
CAPE TOWN — Every business in South Africa should check out their moral compass, clean up their act, (if necessary), and then get behind a corruption-busting Integrity Commission – or face us all ‘graduating into something terminal’. The cautionary quote comes from...
State capture probe of old ‘white capital’
Durban - The war between Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane, the SA Reserve Bank and top banks is far from over. Mkhwebane is forging ahead with her investigation into alleged apartheid economic crimes implicating the Reserve Bank, top banks and business people. She...
Superstar’ judge’s pro-poor, anti-corruption message is loud and clear
Judge Mohamed Navsa, Acting Judge President of the Supreme Court of Appeal, is a judge of high standing who made it clear he is on the side of the poor at an annual Stellenbosch University law school address under the topic: “Human rights and the rule of law: bulwarks...
There is legal medicine for a troubled Zweli Mkhize – it is called Eagles
One gathers from the available evidence that the ANC’s Treasurer General, Dr Zweli Mkhize, is one of the better cadres of the ANC. He did, after all, nominate Cyril Ramaphosa for deputy president at Mangaung and joined him earlier this year in his criticism of the...
The Greater Masiphumele Development Plan
From: Paul Hoffman Sent: 10 March 2016 10:57 PM To: Felicity Purchase Cc: mayor@capetown.gov.za; Helen Zille Subject: The Greater Masiphumele Development Plan Dear Alderman Purchase, Please provide us with a copy of the Greater Masiphumelele Development Plan. We are...
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