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COUNTERING THE CORRUPT

Reform of the Criminal Justice Administration in South Africa

February 6th, 2023 | 09:00-17:30 SAST | Virtual Event

INTRODUCTION

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.

EXPERT PANELS

It is in this regard that civil society partners the 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.

On 6 February 2023, a set of high-level panel discussions will be hosted as a critical intervention to help arrest the decay of society and rebuild governance from the devastation of state capture, by proposing the strengthening of SA’s accountability architecture through a reform of the criminal justice administration in SA.

The discussions will be attended by a small audience as well as live streamed online.

We invite you to join us online by registering your contact details on this page. You will then be e-mailed the link to the online event as well as related materials.

Please find information about the panelists and supporting materials below.

VIRTUAL EVENT

REGISTRATION


09h00 - 09h30: Welcome and Opening Remarks

Gregor Jaecke

Resident Representative, KAS South Africa

Professor Firoz Cachalia

Chairperson, National Anti-Corruption Advisory Council (NACAC)

 


Minister Ronald Lamola

Minister of Justice and Correctional Services


Panel One

09h30 - 10h40: WHAT ARE THE LEGAL REQUIREMENTS FOR ANTI CORRUPTION MACHINERY OF STATE?

Achieving compliance with Glenister

Izak Smuts SC

Senior Counsel, Eastern Cape Society of Advocates and Former Judicial Service Commission

Lawson Naidoo

Executive Secretary, Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (CASAC)

Paul Pretorius

Senior Counsel, Gauteng Society of Advocates, Zondo Commission

Justice Ian Farlam (moderator)

Former Judge at the Supreme Court of Appeal


Panel Two

11h00 - 12h30: WHISTLEBLOWER PROTECTION IN THE SHORT AND LONGER TERM

Cynthia Stimpel

Executive Director, Whistleblower House

Malini Govender

Regional Head, Specialised Commercial Crimes Unit

Tseliso Thipanyane

Former Chief Executive Officer, South African Human Rights Commission

Ben Theron (moderator)

Executive Director, Whistleblower House


Panel Three

14h00 - 15h30: NON-PROSECUTION RESOLUTION OF CORRUPTION CASES

John Oxenham

Director, Primerio and South African Representative, ICC FraudNet

Colette Ashton

Associate, Rose Attorneys and Director, Accountability Now

Glynnis Breytenbach

Former Prosecutor, National Prosecuting Authority and South African Shadow Minister of Justice

Hermione Cronje

Former Investigative Directorate Head in the office of the National Prosecuting Authority

Michael-James Currie (moderator)

Director, Primerio and African Regional Representative, International Bar Association Anti-Corruption Committee


Panel Four

16:00 - 17h20: SUPPORTING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN INTERNATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION COURT TO COUNTER KLEPTOCRACY AND TRANSNATIONAL CORRUPTION CASES

Mwila Bwanga

Founder and Executive Director, BeRelevant Africa


Marianne Camerer

Senior Lecturer at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, UCT

Lord Peter Hain

Member, House of Lords of the United Kingdom

Justice Richard Goldstone (moderator)

Former Judge, Constitutional Court of South Africa


17h20: Closing Remarks

Professor Somadoda Fikeni

Chairperson of the Public Service Commission

Archbishop Thabo Makgoba

Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and Former Commissioner at Press Freedom Commission

Koogan Pillay

Chief Executive Officer, KCL Solutions

Retired Constitutional Court Justice Richard Goldstone

Retired Constitutional Court Justice Catherine O'Regan

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Countering the Corrupt by Paul Hoffman

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