The culture of impunity that has lingered since the presidency of Jacob Zuma has to give way to a new era of integrity and accountability.
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South Africa could benefit from having a dedicated institution to oversee whistleblower protection.
Doctors and nurses fear arrests and being charged with culpable homicide even for minor mistakes.
Most South Africans believe the report into state capture must be followed up to ensure that those responsible for rampant corruption are held accountable.
A major concern is that the government’s resolve is strongest on policies that are actually quite suspect.
Corruption in South Africa became increasingly organised under former President Jacob Zuma.
Social media presents new challenges in sensitive cases but media houses must stick to the law.
South Africa’s Constitutional Court judgment shows concern that the independence of the country’s prosecuting authority has been compromised.
South Africans expect former president Zuma him to take responsibility and remedy his undemocratic and unconstitutional behaviour.
Former South African president Jacob Zuma’s proposed prosecution is a welcome reaffirmation of the principle that all are equal before the law.
Failure by South Africa’s prosecuting authority to pursue those identified in the ‘Gupta e-mails’ points to dereliction of its duty.
After doing nothing for a long time to bring the Gupta family to book in South Africa, the country’s prosecuting authority has finally started to act.
Inquests into atrocities committed under apartheid are important because many South Africans are beginning to question whether justice was done under the country’s truth and reconciliation process.
The Supreme Court of Appeal judgment means that South Africa’s president must be prosecuted - unless the national director of public prosecutions decides again to drop the charges against him.
South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority has failed to pursue members of the executive. But a separate prosecuting body assigned only political cases could be the answer.
The focus will now be on how the social democratic and left-leaning members of South Africa’s cabinet – the “constitutionalists” – will respond to the reshuffle.
Even though private prosecutions have been allowed in South African for almost 100 years, they are fairly rare and there has been only one known successful private prosecution.
South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority charged the country’s finance minister Pravin Gordhan and two of his former colleagues at the tax authority, Ivan Pillay and Oupa Magashule, with fraud last…
Closer examination of criminal charges brought against South Africa’s finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, suggest that they are weak in law and serve a political agenda.
The stakes have not been higher since the heady days of the early 1990s when South Africa also looked over the brink. Now it is less about brink and more about who will blink
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