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 public prosecutions the court, rightly so, ruled out the president as the appointer of a […]
State Capture Commission
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 came under attack from the Reserve Bank and Absa last week. In an […]
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
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 stuck as to be paralysed to not do his duty and […]
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 too big for her under-staffed, under-resourced office, and in a […]
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 been in power at national level since 1994 that is responsible for this illegal […]
