Accountability Now has been accorded the privilege of making oral submissions on its suggested Chapter Nine Integrity Commission to the Constitutional Review Committee of the National Assembly. There is a consensus building in parliament that radical reform of the criminal justice administration is urgently needed to counter serious corruption, State Capture and all forms of kleptocracy in SA. The suggestions of Accountability Now are widely regarded as the best practice way forward for countering serious corruption. Directors of Primerio will speak in support of the introduction of Non-Trial Resolution of complex international corruption cases and on the protection of whistle-blowers.
Step one towards the envisaged renaissance is the ending of the National Democratic Revolution as we know it in favour of a wholehearted embrace of the values of the Constitution. If the ANC is not up to the task, the long-suffering electorate, as an act of self-preservation, must vote the ANC.
Until serious corruption is properly addressed, with fealty to the criteria set by the Constitutional Court in the Glennister judgment via the proactive reform of the criminal justice system, there will be no renewal in South Africa.
The Hawks and the NPA are up to the task of dealing with petty corruption. It is serious corruption that is the problem in SA and that will be properly addressed by the creation of the new body that will function in the same way as the Scorpions did but with greater independence and better secu.