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 the Centre For Applied Legal Studies, Corruption Watch, Foundation for Human Rights, Open Secrets, Public Affairs Research Instituter and the Right2Know Campaign.
Hearings on economic crimes were held this week before a panel, which included retired Justice Zak Yakoob, retired Judge Navanethem Pillay, Mandisa Dyantyi of the Social Justice Coalition, Bahamian Barrister Allyson Maynard-Gibson QC and Dinga Sikwebu, co-director of programmes at Tshisimani centre for activist education.
The panel heard evidence from experts, writers, researchers, civil society and other witnesses, on the violations of UN sanctions during 1977 and 1994, the 1999 arms deal and allegations of state capture involving Denel.
In a report on the preliminary findings the tribunal recommended South African state institutions and various European states investigate “serious instances” of economic crime.
Source: Fin24
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