Complaint to the HRC late 12 March
Creating an accountable SA via an inviolate anti-corruption unit
CAPE TOWN — Just as constitutionally changing the proportional representation system to make politicians individually accountable to the electorate would radically improve our democracy, so too would an inviolate anti-corruption unit. Creating a unit with the...
INDEPENDENCE OF THE HAWKS – ANC claims it is fighting corruption, but evidence points the other way
"There can be no gainsaying that corruption threatens to fell at the knees virtually everything we hold dear and precious in our hard-won constitutional order. It blatantly undermines the democratic ethos, the institutions of democracy, the rule of law and the...
The fight for the Scorpions was not in vain
Paul Hoffman says the Glenister cases set important legal precedents. While the naming and shaming of those who voted the Scorpions out of existence is a timely and valuable exercise, there are positives which have emerged from the messy business of changing...
Advocacy Article on the Integrity Commission
Advocacy article on Integrity Commission
Comparative Analysis of Anti-Corruption Machinery of State
Comparative analysis of anti-corruption machinery of state
Report of the OPP on the CIEX complaint by Accountability Now concerning the ABSA lifeboat
The final report of the Office of the Public Protector (OPP) was made available to Accountability Now on 19 June 2017, in it Adv Busisiwe Mkhwebane upholds the complaint and asks that steps be taken to recover R1.125 billion from ABSA as a consequence of the benefits...
Commission of inquiry into state capture
The Quaker Peace Centre has instructed its attorneys to demand that the Deputy President appoint a commission of inquiry into state capture because the President is too conflicted to do so. Letter of demand
Masiphumelele
This sequence of photos illustrates the terrible sanitation problems in Masi, despite the same problems being reported repeatedly for months. This toilet block in Z Section is one example. The outlet pipes at the back of the toilets are old and cracked. Sewerage leaks...
A commission of inquiry into state capture: to be or not to be?
Former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela may have overlooked the provisions of section 90 of the Constitution which make provision for the Deputy President to act when the President is unable to fulfil the duties of President. Let’s hope that Cyril Ramaphosa is not so...
In ANC leadership race, support for Integrity Commission is critical
How the good candidates can distinguish themselves from being “more of the same”. At a time of desperate drought in the south and violent flooding in the north; with Sassa melting down the hopes of the grant-reliant poor and “radical economic transformation”...
What the #StateCaptureReport doesn’t say. Shift gears a la Al Capone style
In life, one learns a lot more from what is not said, than what is. And if one applies this theory to former public protector Thuli Madonsela’s #StateCaptureReport, the real issues come to the fore, says Accountability Now’s Paul Hoffman. Madonsela said the matter is...
ANC ‘merciless’ on corruption? It’ll take 20 years to clear case backlog – just for starters
With headlines almost daily on government financial scandals and backhanders for civil servants increasingly common, no-one is under any illusion that corruption is a major blight on South Africa’s business and investment landscape. In this article, Paul Hoffman...
Cadre Deployment in the Public Administration is illegal
The need for transformation of outmoded deployment practices in the public administration must be taken seriously by the authors of the pervasiveness of cadre deployment in state owned enterprises (think Brian Molefe at Eskom) and the public administration (think...
State capture began with cadre deployment
The need for transformation of outmoded deployment practices in the public administration must be taken seriously by the authors of the pervasiveness of cadre deployment in state owned enterprises and the public administration. It is the ANC led alliance which has...
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