Upfront with Refilwe Moloto: What is the Seriti Commission?
Open Secrets’ Researcher Michael Marchant chats with Africa Melane on the Seriti Commission and the Review.
Open Secrets’ Researcher Michael Marchant chats with Africa Melane on the Seriti Commission and the Review.
Right2Know (R2K) and Corruption Watch (CW) will be in court on 11th and 12th June to finally review and set aside the findings of the Arms Procurement Commission
On the 11th and 12th of June 2019 Corruption Watch South Africa and Right to Know Campaign (R2K) are at the High Court in Gauteng to present their review application into the Seriti Commission. Michael Marchant and Mamello Mosiana from Open Secrets, in a short informal video, discuss the process that led to this step.
The corruption case against former South African president Jacob Zuma has begun. Zuma’s case lifts the lid on the influence of weapons companies on governments worldwide. “It’s not a story of a corrupt guy, Jacob Zuma,” says Hennie van Vuuren, the director of Open Secrets, a South African organisation that investigates economic crimes and abuses…
Phemelo Motene unpacks the arms deal with Micheal Marchant
Civil society groups Corruption Watch and the Right2Know Campaign have announced they will be taking the judicial commission of inquiry into the arms deal (the Seriti commission) on judicial review. They insist the public has been denied both truth and justice for corruption that continues to cost SA billions. The review is an attempt to…
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…
R2K is angered by the content of the report of the Seriti Commission, presented today by President Zuma, which claims that it found no evidence of corruption and bribery in the 1999 Arms Deal.
The arms companies have successfully avoided scrutiny at the Seriti Commission, essentially putting the whistle-blowers and critics on trial.