Open Secrets Newsletter | June 2024
We are seeking accountability for a key player in the Rwandan Genocide, we launched the Gupta Tracker, and made a submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Climate Change.
We are seeking accountability for a key player in the Rwandan Genocide, we launched the Gupta Tracker, and made a submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Climate Change.
JOHANNESBURG – Advocacy group Open Secrets has petitioned the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to prosecute a former apartheid government official for his involvement in the Rwandan genocide 30 years later.
Open Secrets submitted a memorandum to the NPA motivating for the prosecution of Willem “Ters” Ehlers, a South African currently residing in Pretoria, for the offence of aiding and abetting the Rwandan Genocide.
Open Secrets and the Access to Information Coalition for the Energy Sector (ATIC) submitted a crucial report to the UN Special Rapporteur for Climate Change.
Lester Kiewit speaks to Michael Marchant, head of investigations at OpenSecrets, about what happens now that former Eskom bosses Matshela Koko and Brian Molefe have had the cases against them dropped by the NPA.
From in-depth investigative reporting on the potential profiteers of a Basic Income Grant, to our relentless pursuit of legal accountability for those implicated in State Capture in Zimbabwe, Open Secrets continued to pursue accountability in May.
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