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Arms deal whistleblowers still want justice, welcome probe into judges
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JOHANNESBURG - WHISTLEBLOWERS and campaigners against the multibillion-rand arms deal have not given up on justice for taxpayers after the Judicial Conduct Committee (JCC) confirmed it was investigating complaints against two judges who probed the transaction.
Whistleblower Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Patricia de Lille wants the R137 million spent on the commission headed by retired Supreme Court of Appeal Judge Willie Seriti to be recovered from evidence leaders, the lawyers and investigators it employed.
De Lille, unlike other whistleblowers, former IFP MP Dr. Gavin Woods and Terry Crawford-Browne, does not want the commission to be reinstituted.
In another victory for civil society and accountability, former Minister of Social Development, head of the ANC Women’s League and currently MP, Bathabile Dlamini, has finally coughed up R650,000 in legal costs owed due to her “reckless and grossly negligent” conduct as a Minister.
After three years of giving the Black Sash Trust, represented by the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (Cals) and Freedom Under Law (FUL), the runaround Cals announced on 13 May that “we have been gratified to note that in the past two weeks the order has now been complied with and Ms Dlamini has paid our costs”.
There have been four surveys conducted by NIDS-CRAM to assess the country’s socioeconomic conditions during the Covid-19 pandemic.
One of the findings is that 57% of children had missed a school meal in the past seven days, despite a court order that the education department must roll out its nutrition programme to children on their days of not attending school.
The survey also found that 72% of adults living with children reported that their “households had run out of money to buy food in the month prior to being interviewed in at least one of the four waves of NIDS-CRAM”.
Fewer than half of children received school meals from the National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) this year while schools were open.