Siphe Macanda | Times Live | 03 February 2018 | The five-day People’s Tribunal on Economic Crimes kicked off on Saturday at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg with human rights lawyer Charles Abrahams as the first witness making a presentation on apartheid state secrets. Firing the first salvo‚ he condemned the fact that the “new” South…
Morning Live | SABC | 06 February 2018 Corporates and senior political figures have been implicated in various transgressions at the People’s Tribunal currently underway in Johannesburg. For the past four days, whistle blowers from all walks of life have been presenting evidence linked to economic crimes, corruption and state capture. To give an update…
Marelise van der Merwe | Daily Maverick | 06 February 2018 | It was a bruising day for many significant reputations at the People’s Tribunal on Economic Crime in Johannesburg on Monday. Lawyer Ajay Sooklal, formerly known as Witness X, took to the stand and implicated two former French Presidents, President Jacob Zuma and a…
Open Secrets | The Daily Maverick | 06 February 2018 | In the face of slow moving state institutions, politically compromised investigative agencies, and obstructive politicians, South African citizens are exercising their power to challenge the corrupt directly. The first hearings of the People’s Tribunal on Economic Crime in South Africa commenced on Saturday 3…
SABC News | 04 February 2018 Alleged large scale corruption involving multinationals companies and the violation of the UN embargo prohibiting sale of arms to the apartheid government dominated discussions at the People’s Tribunal on Economic Crimes underway in Johannesburg. Speakers say while South Africa has the legal framework to take on big corporates, it…
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…