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 1999 arms deal and present day corruption, commonly known as state capture.
The tribunal was formed in reaction to the sluggish response of the state to corruption over the last decades, and is the first in the world to specifically address crimes of corruption and theft.
The evidence is being heard by a panel of esteemed jurists chaired by former Constitional Court Justice Zak Yacoob. The other panel members are Navi Pillay‚ Dinga Sikwebu‚ Mandisa Dyantyi‚ Yasmin Sooka and Allyson Maynard Gibson.
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. They are hoping to shine the light on the reasons for South Africa’s ongoing corruption scandals.
Source: Fin24
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