Still waiting for promised RDP houses, nine years later

In Mdantsane, East London, 27 families have been waiting for nine years for RDP houses promised to them. Instead of the six months that they expected, they have been living for nearly a decade in substandard container homes. Ward councillors and municipality representatives have had nothing to say on the matter.

People's Tribunal issues call for evidence

A call for evidence has been issued by the newly-formed People's Tribunal on Economic Crime, and the first hearings will take place in November. The People’s Tribunal is organised by citizens, and is not a statutory body. It will scrutinise the inter-connected nature of state capture in South Africa, joining the dots over the past four decades from apartheid-era economic crime to the post-apartheid arms deal and the current era of what we call state capture.

People's Tribunal: call for information and witnesses

The People’s Tribunal on Economic Crimes convenes in November for the first time. The tribunal is driven by civil society, including Corruption Watch, and seeks to interrogate the continuities in grand corruption in South Africa over the past 40 years, from apartheid to contemporary state capture. It hopes to stimulate informed public debate and engagement in the continuities of corruption in South Africa, and identify actors in the private and public sector who have committed or been complicit in acts of corruption or economic crime.