Open Secrets in partnership with the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) are taking the fight for accountability for South Africa’s historic economic crimes to Europe using international accountability frameworks.
This is a statement by the South African History Archive (SAHA) The South African History Archive (SAHA) notes with great disappointment and alarm the decision that was handed down by the Johannesburg High Court on 19 March 2018 in the matter of the South African History Archive v South African Reserve Bank and another. Paradoxically, this…
Address all apartheid-era economic crimes Open Secrets, through its attorneys the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) at Wits University, has filed papers to intervene as a friend of the court (amicus) in the review of the Public Protector’s ‘Absa-CIEX’ report. The review proceedings, brought by Absa, the South African Reserve Bank, and Treasury, will…
The People’s Tribunal on Economic Crime in South Africa invites members of the public to submit information to be presented at the first hearings.
Why, after more than two decades of democracy in South Africa, is the apartheid archive still kept under lock and key?
Corruption Watch and the Right2Know Campaign have launched an application to review and set aside the findings of the Arms Procurement Commission
Press Statement by Andrew Feinstein, Paul Holden and Hennie Van Vuuren, regarding the release of the Seriti Commission Report into the Arms Deal | 21 April 2016 On the 21st of April 2016, President Jacob Zuma announced the release of the report of the Commission of Inquiry into allegations of fraud, corruption, impropriety or irregularity…
Dissolve the Arms Procurement Commission! Launch a full and transparent criminal investigation! Prosecute all implicated in wrongdoing!
Andrew Feinstein, Paul Holden and Hennie Van Vuuren | 28 August 2014 Withdrawal from the Arms Procurement Commission The Arms Deal was a uniquely damaging moment in our young democratic history. It was concluded after decades of uncontrolled spending on foreign and internal wars by the apartheid regime. From the signing of the contracts in…
Despite evidence that political corruption may have been rampant during apartheid, there has been a surprising lack of political will to investigate “If there was corruption during Apartheid, why didn’t anyone hear about it?” A common and obvious question, with more answers than you might think. One answer is that people who lived through apartheid often did…