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…
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…
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…
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…