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Justice is like air and clean water

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The full quote from which the headline above is taken reads: “Justice is not a luxury, it is something we need like air and clean

Are we living in a BANI country?

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Janet Jobson is a “merchant of hope”. She has to be because she heads up the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation. She has brought

Renew, Replace and Reform, the three Rs for reviving the ANC’s support

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The ANC, still the largest party in Parliament but no longer in the majority, has stated publicly that it needs to renew, or it will

Do SA politicians take countering corruption seriously?

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In the carefully chosen words of the Constitutional Court, “(t)here can be no gainsaying that corruption threatens to fell at the knees virtually everything we

The truth about Busisiwe Mkhwebane

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In October, former Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane resigned her position as an EFF member of parliament to take some “rest”, as she put it. Within

Let your words be matched by your actions to counter corruption, Mr President

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On 24 September 2024, the United Nations General Assembly was told by President Cyril Ramaphosa, in no uncertain terms, that: “Through dialogue, through respect for

Towards consensus on the way forward for SA on countering the corrupt

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Corrupt people are the bane of the life of the nation in SA, and indeed anywhere in the world where corruption is as rife as

Cursing and (mis)labelling journalists is not good governance

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An inquiry by telephone on 18 August 2023 was directed to the Member of the Executive Council for Human Settlements in Gauteng, Lebogang Maile, by

Reforming the criminal justice system to counter corruption: the hard, cold facts

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The Constitution and the law as interpreted by the Constitutional Court in the Glenister litigation* are clear on what is required of the state to

One swallow does not a summer make

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Aristotle wrote in his first book of Ethics: ‘One swallow makes no summer, nor does one day’.  The day that saw Jacob Zuma incarcerated for civil contempt