SABC News | 08 February 2018 The first People’s Tribunal has called for investigations into governments that had links with the apartheid regime. Leading the 5-day hearings at Constitutional Hill in Johannesburg, Justice Zak Yacoob says there was an abysmal failure to investigate and prosecute these crimes. Source: SABC Digital News
Marc Davies | Huffington Post ZA | 08 February 2018 | The People’s Tribunal on Economic Crime concluded on Wednesday with preliminary findings from the panel. The abysmal failure to properly investigate, and prosecute, apartheid-era crimes set the scene for the “corrupt” R30-billion (in 1999 value) arms deal to unfold, the panel at the corruption…
eNCA | 06 February 2018 | JOHANNESBURG – The People’s Tribunal on Economic Crime in South Africa resumes at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg on Tuesday. The Treatment Action Campaign’s Zackie Achmat will address the tribunal on the cost of the controversial arms deal. A whistleblower has implicated two former French presidents and Mac Maharaj’s wife in a…
eNCA | 07 February 2018 | JOHANNESBURG, 07 January 2018 – The People’s Tribunal is hearing testimony on economic crime in South Africa dating back to apartheid, the late-1990s arms deal (investigated by the Seriti Commission) and more recent accusations of corruption linked to state capture. Source: eNCA
Pieter-Louis Myburgh | News24 | 05 February 2018 | Johannesburg – A former arms deal insider has implicated a range of powerful actors – including two former French presidents, President Jacob Zuma and other senior South African politicians – in alleged corrupt dealings and subsequent cover-ups pertaining to South Africa’s infamous weapons acquisition program. Lawyer…
Juniour Khumalo | City Press | 07 February 2018 | In the face of the state’s failure to pursue economic crimes by business and political elites, Constitutional Hill in Johannesburg played host to day four of the people’s economic tribunal on economic crime on Tuesday. The focus of the day was the failures of the…
IBA Legalbrief Africa | 05 February 2018 | Allegations of state capture and economic crimes committed before and after democracy in 1994 are under scrutiny at the high-powered People’s Tribunal on Economic Crime which got under way at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg at the weekend. The tribunal aims to ‘join the dots’ in the country’s…
Jones Bahamas | The Bahama Journal | 05 February 2018 | Former Attorney General Allyson Maynard Gibson is one six adjudicators that are a part of The People’s Tribunal on Economic Crime in Johannesburg, South Africa. The tribunal aims to connect the dots in the country’s story of state capture and economic crimes committed in…
Neo Koza | Talk Radio 702 | 06 February 2018 | A former arms deal insider has made explosive claims at the People’s Tribunal on Economic Crime. Ajay Sooklal alleges that South Africa’s former Head of Arms Procurement Chippy Schaik was paid 1 million US dollars by Thales SA (Societe Anonyme) boss Pierre Moynot. He…
Sane Dhlamini | Polity | 05 February 2018 | Civil society organisations on Monday held a People’s Tribunal on Economic Crime at Constitution Hill, in Johannesburg, in an effort to uncover more evidence of how the Arms Deal, State capture and apartheid activities have affected people on the ground. The tribunal was organised by the…