A Cape Town-based civil society group says government continues to fail taxpayers by letting corruption-accused off the hook.
Lester Kiewit spoke to Paul Hoffman, Accountability Now Director, on whether Cabinet is doing enough to tackle corruption.
The ANC’s highest decision making body, the national executive committee, has time and again promised drastic measures to root out corruption. In 2017, the governing party president, Cyril Ramaphosa, promised to fight corruption with the same fervour they’re battling against poverty, inequality and unemployment.
But according to Accountability Now Director, Paul Hoffman, not much has happened since then.
Five years later, I don’t see that happening at all…Nothing has been done to implement that resolution of the NEC, which tells me there are currents pulling in different directions in the ANC.
Paul Hoffman, Director – Accountability Now
Hoffman says since the Scorpions were disbanded, with that move being declared unconstitutional by the country’s highest court, not much has been done to set up a unit falling outside of the police to specifically target those fleecing taxpayers.
If they persist in falling around as they are at the moment, the solution to the problem is either to vote them out,
or to take them back to the Constitutional Court court to say judges, you asked them to do something and they have not done it, please compel them.Paul Hoffman, Director – Accountability Now
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