Jeremy Cronin | PoliticsWeb | 14 February 2018 | Lenin is reputed to have once said “there are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen.” It would be an exaggeration to claim decades have been happening in South Africa in the past few weeks. We are not exactly living through “ten days that shook…
Lameez Omarjee & Tehillah Niselow | Fin24 | 10 February 2018 | Cape Town – After a five-day sitting the People’s Tribunal has recommended that economic crimes such as the arms deal of 1999, non-compliance with United Nations (UN) sanctions during apartheid and state capture be investigated. The tribunal was organised by civil society groups including…
Ra’eesa Pather | Mail & Guardian | 06 February 2018 | After delivering testimony on Monday that implicated two former French presidents and South African leaders in the arms deal, attorney Ajay Sooklal chose to withdraw from the People’s Tribunal on Economic Crimes after being questioned by former justice Zak Yacoob on his moral judgments. Yacoob, who…
Tehillah Niselow | Fin24 | 04 February 2018 | Johannesburg – A five-day tribunal focusing on South African’s economic crimes has heard how the sins of previous transgressors still haunt South Africa today. The People’s Tribunal on Economic Crime is trying to join the dots between apartheid era corruption involving sanctions busting selling of weapons, the…
Marc Davies | Huffington Post ZA | 05 February 2018 | Ajay Sooklal is presenting evidence on arms deal corruption at the People’s Tribunal on Economic Crime. Earlier presented only as ‘Witness X’, Ajay Sooklal was delivering explosive testimony at the People’s Tribunal during sessions on the arms deal corruption on Monday afternoon. Sooklal, an attorney…