Janine Erasmus | Corruption Watch | 15 June 2018 | When the People’s Tribunal on Economic Crime in South Africa presented its preliminary findings in early February 2018, it stated that all implicated parties would receive the relevant evidence and copies of submissions and those preliminary findings. They would have three months to respond. Shortly afterwards NGO Open Secrets served…
Sound Africa | Mail & Guardian | 17 May 2018 | When apartheid ended, the big international companies and banks that helped the regime buy weapons illegally continued to do business with the new government. Until today, they have never been held accountable. This was the subject of the first People’s Tribunal on Economic Crime…
Yogin Devan | IOL | 18 February 2018 | Opinion – “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” While the exact author of this gem of a quote is lost in the mists of time, it crisply captures the gist of this week’s column. While South Africa was…
Press Release People’s Tribunal: Implicated parties given three months to respond Open Secrets, as the Secretariat of the People’s Tribunal, has served 38 implicated parties with an invitation to respond to the evidence submitted against them at the first People’s Tribunal on Economic Crime. The parties have been provided with three months in which to…
The Arms Money Machine An outlier in South Africa’s collective understanding of how apartheid operated has been around issues of corruption and economic crime. The failure to properly interrogate these economic crimes at the TRC or since has resulted in a gap in South Africa’s collective understanding of our past. It has also allowed a…
Alleged corruption in the 1999 Arms Deal Occurring during South Africa’s transition period from apartheid to democracy, the Arms Deal exemplifies the continuities between old and new elements within shadowy criminal ‘deep state’ networks. It continues to haunt present South African politics, directly implicating Jacob Zuma, who recently resigned as President of the country and…
The Denel & VR Laser case ‘State capture’ has become a defining phrase of South Africa’s current politics. Rather than referencing a single corruption scandal, it is used to refer to influence wielded by powerful private interests on government policy, the structure of economic and political institutions and, ultimately, on crucial government decisions, to advance…
Imraan Buccus | The Mercury | 13 February 2018 | Imagine if Jacob Zuma had offered to resign as president in December? He might not have received a ticker tape parade but he could have avoided the gory reality show of his last days in office. He’s gone into many battles in a lifetime in politics.…
Jeremy Cronin | PoliticsWeb | 14 February 2018 | Lenin is reputed to have once said “there are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen.” It would be an exaggeration to claim decades have been happening in South Africa in the past few weeks. We are not exactly living through “ten days that shook…
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…
