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…
Pieter-Louis Myburgh | News24 | 05 February 2018 | Johannesburg – A former arms deal insider has implicated a range of powerful actors – including two former French presidents, President Jacob Zuma and other senior South African politicians – in alleged corrupt dealings and subsequent cover-ups pertaining to South Africa’s infamous weapons acquisition program. Lawyer…
Juniour Khumalo | City Press | 07 February 2018 | In the face of the state’s failure to pursue economic crimes by business and political elites, Constitutional Hill in Johannesburg played host to day four of the people’s economic tribunal on economic crime on Tuesday. The focus of the day was the failures of the…
IBA Legalbrief Africa | 05 February 2018 | Allegations of state capture and economic crimes committed before and after democracy in 1994 are under scrutiny at the high-powered People’s Tribunal on Economic Crime which got under way at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg at the weekend. The tribunal aims to ‘join the dots’ in the country’s…
Kwazi Dlamini | Corruption Watch | 07 February 2018 The People’s Tribunal on Economic Crime, currently in session at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg, is drawing to a close but it has certainly produced its share of sensational revelations. On Monday Ajay Sooklal, formerly a legal representative of French arms company Thales, dropped a bombshell by…
eNCA | 07 February 2018 | JOHANNESBURG – The People’s Tribunal has heard that eradicating corruption requires holding people to account in both the public and private sectors. The tribunal, convened by civil society organisations, is hearing testimony on economic crime in South Africa dating back to apartheid, the late-1990s arms deal, and more recent…
Marelise van der Merwe | The Daily Maverick | 07 February 2018 | It was the private sector’s turn to get a battering at the People’s Tribunal for Economic Crimes at Constitutional Hill in Johannesburg on Tuesday. The penultimate day of the tribunal, which organisers say aims to “join the dots” between corruption in the…
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…
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.…