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Paul Hoffman SC, Director Accountability Now – 22 July 2019 Now that the high jinks of Busisiwe Mkhwebane, our current Public Protector, have been characterised as both dishonest and indicative of her incompetence by our highest court and by our long-suffering and chronically persecuted Minister of Public Enterprises, Pravin Gordhan, it is an opportune time to […]

Pierre de Vos, Constitutionally Speaking – 21 July 2019 Another day, another Public Protector Report that will have an impact on the internal power struggle raging in the African National Congress (ANC), and (possibly) another judicial review of the report. While the Public Protector’s report on President Cyril Ramaphosa’s financing of his campaign to become President of the […]

Richard Calland, Associate Professor in Public Law, University of Cape Town South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma threatened on Friday to walk away from a judicial commission of inquiry into corruption, throwing the process into temporary confusion and uncertainty. An agreement was later cobbled together that will maintain Zuma’s participation in the process. But it […]

On the EFF:  History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce Speech by John Steenhuisen MP Chief Whip of the Official Opposition on Parliament’s budget vote – 16 July 2019 “One of the things that I am going to do is establish a special task team to look at issues of how Parliament exercised […]