Ra’eesa Pather | Mail & Guardian | 06 February 2018 | After delivering testimony on Monday that implicated two former French presidents and South African leaders in the arms deal, attorney Ajay Sooklal chose to withdraw from the People’s Tribunal on Economic Crimes after being questioned by former justice Zak Yacoob on his moral judgments. Yacoob, who…
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…
Marc Davies | Huffington Post ZA | 05 February 2018 | Ajay Sooklal is presenting evidence on arms deal corruption at the People’s Tribunal on Economic Crime. Earlier presented only as ‘Witness X’, Ajay Sooklal was delivering explosive testimony at the People’s Tribunal during sessions on the arms deal corruption on Monday afternoon. Sooklal, an attorney…
Marc Davies | Huffington Post ZA | 07 February 2018 Bishop Malusi Mpumlwana’s closing message at the People’s Tribunal On Economic Crime on February 7, 2018. Source: Huffington Post ZA
PoliticsWeb | 08 February 2018 | Following five days of hearings the five-member panel of the first Peoples’ Tribunal on Economic Crime released their preliminary findings last night. The findings, read out by Justice Zak Yacoob at Constitution Hill provide a strong call for accountability. They echo the closing message to the People’s Tribunal by…
Rumana Akoob | The Daily Vox | 09 February 2018 | The People’s Tribunal on Economic Crime in South Africa took place at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg this past week. Social activist and lecturer Khaya Sithole presented to the Tribunal on Tuesday on white collar crimes and state capture. The People’s Tribunal ran from 3 –…
Poloko Tau | City Press | 10 February 2018 | The atrium at the Women’s Gaol at Joburg’s historic Constitutional Hill felt tense, cold and, at times, deafeningly silent as dark secrets were laid bare. Some in the audience gasped, others kept their heads down as witnesses spoke of how dodgy arms deals and state…
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…