Marelise van der Merwe | The Daily Maverick | 07 February 2018 | It was the private sector’s turn to get a battering at the People’s Tribunal for Economic Crimes at Constitutional Hill in Johannesburg on Tuesday. The penultimate day of the tribunal, which organisers say aims to “join the dots” between corruption in the…
Nathan Daniels | JacarandaFM | 05 February 2018 | A tribunal probing economic crimes has heard damning claims implicating President Jacob Zuma in corruption during the controversial arms deal on Monday. Source: JacarandaFM
Siphe Macanda | Times Live | 03 February 2018 | The five-day People’s Tribunal on Economic Crimes kicked off on Saturday at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg with human rights lawyer Charles Abrahams as the first witness making a presentation on apartheid state secrets. Firing the first salvo‚ he condemned the fact that the “new” South…
Morning Live | SABC | 06 February 2018 Corporates and senior political figures have been implicated in various transgressions at the People’s Tribunal currently underway in Johannesburg. For the past four days, whistle blowers from all walks of life have been presenting evidence linked to economic crimes, corruption and state capture. To give an update…
Marelise van der Merwe | Daily Maverick | 06 February 2018 | It was a bruising day for many significant reputations at the People’s Tribunal on Economic Crime in Johannesburg on Monday. Lawyer Ajay Sooklal, formerly known as Witness X, took to the stand and implicated two former French Presidents, President Jacob Zuma and a…
Open Secrets | The Daily Maverick | 06 February 2018 | In the face of slow moving state institutions, politically compromised investigative agencies, and obstructive politicians, South African citizens are exercising their power to challenge the corrupt directly. The first hearings of the People’s Tribunal on Economic Crime in South Africa commenced on Saturday 3…