BACKGROUND TO THE EVENT

Chief Justice Zondo was scathing in his final report of the State Capture Commission, pointing to industrial scale fraud, looting, corruption, and massive deficit in integrity, accountability and hence governance, leading to citizens being unable to access their basic human rights as enshrined in our Constitution.

President Ramaphosa himself, when receiving the final report, expressed the deep sense of shame, embarrassment and betrayal by the governing party, and many leaders in Government and the private sector, implicated in state capture, corruption and wrongdoing, and invited citizens with the requisite skills and expertise to come forward in helping to fix the country and society broken by the state capture project.

It is in this regard that civil society partners Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Primerio International, Accountability Now and the University of Cape Town have come together to heed the President’s call with a critical intervention to help arrest the decay of society by fixing and rebuilding governance after the devastation of state capture, by proposing the strengthening of SA’s accountability architecture. We are proud to present a conference on critical aspects of the reform of the criminal justice administration in South Africa.

This document is supported by video recordings of the event. These are available at: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlR6gUX7gBQVSZtcFBGR8ULlNZ_K5oxv0 or found by a web search, example “KAS Midpoint Justice Youtube”
 

AUTHOR OF THIS REPORT

Koogan Pillay
OBO the Organising Partners
Governance and Human Rights Advocate
Former Project Manager: NACS - DPME & SIU
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CONTENTS

SUMMARY OF DISCUSSIONS OF PANEL PRESENTERS

WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS

Gregor Jaecke, Minister Ronald Lamola, Professor Firoz Cachalia

PANEL 1: WHAT ARE THE LEGAL REQUIREMENTS FOR ANTI CORRUPTION MACHINERY OF STATE? ACHIEVING COMPLIANCE WITH GLENISTER

Judge Ian Farlam (moderator), Paul Pretorius SC, Lawson Naidoo, Izak Smuts SC

PANEL 2: WHISTLE-BLOWER PROTECTION IN THE SHORT AND LONGER TERM

Ben Theron (moderator), Malini Govender, Cynthia Stimpel, Tseliso Thipanyane

PANEL 3: NON-PROSECUTION RESOLUTION OF CORRUPTION CASES

Michael-James Currie (moderator), John Oxenham, Colette Ashton, Hermione Cronje

PANEL 4: SUPPORTING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN INTERNATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION COURT TO COUNTER KLEPTOCRACY AND TRANSNATIONAL CORRUPTION CASES

Justice Richard Goldstone (moderator), Mwila Bwanga, Dr Marianne Camerer, Lord Peter Hain

CLOSING REMARKS

Paul Hoffman SC (moderator), Professor Somadoda Fikeni, Archbishop Thabo Makgoba, Koogan Pillay

CONCLUSION AND WAY FORWARD