Ra’eesa Pather | Mail & Guardian | 05 February 2018 | Ajay Sooklal, the lawyer who helped produce evidence implicating President Jacob Zuma in the 1999 arms deal, has made fresh allegations that during the deal, South African head of arms procurement Chippy Schaik was paid $1-million by Thales SA (Societe Anonyme) boss Pierre Moynot.…
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Marc Davies | Huffington Post ZA | 05 February 2018 | The lawyer who once represented the French arms company, however, was reluctant to answer questions about his own alleged complicity in arms deal corruption. Attorney Ajay Sooklal, who formerly represented French arms manufacturer Thales, presented new allegations of arms deal graft in his testimony before…
Marc Davies | Huffington Post | 05 February 2018 Startling revelations and powerful evidence of grand corruption implicating politicians from PW Botha to Jacob Zuma, global banks and corporations was presented at The People’s Tribunal on Saturday and Sunday. Overseen by an esteemed panel including former Constitutional Court Justice Zac Yacoob, the Tribunal has been…
Rolina Voster | Everyday News | 04 February 2018 | The first two days of hearings of the first People’s Tribunal on Economic Crime have seen powerful evidence given at Constitutional Hill in Johannesburg. The proceedings, overseen by an esteemed panel of local and international adjudicators chaired by former Constitutional Court Justice Zak Yacoob, heard…
Marc Davies | Huffington Post ZA | 04 February 2018 | The legal fraternity and civil society at-large should be directly involved in the appointment of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) head to strengthen its independence, said a witness at the corruption tribunal on Sunday. Presenting to a panel at The People’s Tribunal On Economic Crime,…
Lungani Zungu | Independent Online | 04 February 2018 | THE allegations of state capture and economic crimes committed in the country before and after democracy in 1994 are coming under scrutiny at the high-powered People’s Tribunal on Economic Crime which got under way at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg yesterday. The tribunal aims to “join the…
Ra’eesa Pather | Mail & Guardian | 03 February 2018 | A people’s tribunal on economic crimes in South Africa has heard submissions on how big corporations evaded the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and how the democratic government failed to implement recommendations from the commission which could have helped better compensate victims of apartheid.…
Marc Davies | Huffington Post ZA | 03 February 2018 | Multinationals need to be held accountable for “aiding and abetting” the apartheid regime, says a civil society representative at the People’s Tribunal. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) failed to investigate devastating apartheid-era economic crimes, and some of its recommendations should be revisited, said a…
Listen as Open Secrets’ Hennie van Vuuren introduces listeners to the People’s Tribunal on Economic Crime in South Africa which will be taking place at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg from the 3-7 Feb 2018.