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Open Secrets has submitted a memorandum to the NPA motivating for the prosecution of Willem “Ters” Ehlers, a South African currently residing in Pretoria, for the offence of aiding and abetting the Rwandan Genocide.
#Kwibuka
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Civil society calls on Zondo to summon private actors including Absa, Bain & Co, Bank of Baroda, Deloitte, FNB, Hogan Lovells, KPMG, Nedbank, Neotel &Standard Bank — to answer on the extent of their knowledge of what unfolded during
#StateCapture
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21 MARCH 1960. 69 KILLED. 180 WOUNDED.
Human Rights Day in South Africa commemorates the Sharpeville massacre of 21 March, 1960 where 69 black South Africans were killed by police while protesting against Pass Laws.
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#DeclassifiedApartheidProfits
- Who funded the National Party?
This article looks at corporations & businessmen, like Barloworld, PG Glass & Shoprite's Christo Wiese who funded the National Party & profited from apartheid.
#FreeApartheidSecrets
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We need to urgently find out who murdered Frans Mathipa & why. If we allow this to become “just another unsolved murder”, we risk normalising abductions, assassinations, & suspicious arms deals, turning the clock back 30 years to when assassins routinely prowled the streets of SA
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The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) is finally going after Deloitte for their involvement in the Steinhoff debacle - Its about time!
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#OnThisDay
in 1988, five bullets ended the life of South African freedom fighter Dulcie September.
She had been imprisoned, driven into exile, and by the 1980’s she had spearheaded the anti-apartheid efforts in France, Switzerland and Luxembourg from a small office in Paris.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa has repeatedly committed to ensuring the recommendations of the Zondo commission are implemented. And yet, his cabinet is littered with ministers, like
@Khu_Ntshavheni
, who was implicated in State Capture. When will these ministers' be held accountable?
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Today we stand proud to be South African. The South African government’s application at the ICJ is an important step to challenge gross violations of international human rights law.
Good luck to the stellar team including Adila Hassim, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi & John Dugard!
Open Secrets stands with Palestine. We call for an immediate ceasefire by the Israeli occupation forces & an end to Israeli apartheid. We also call on the SA government to prevent arms companies from supplying weapons that could be used against Gazans.
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Tax season has arrived & while SARS commissioner, Edward Kieswetter, has aptly reminded us all to pay our taxes. Why the focus on ordinary citizens when corporate tax avoidance/evasion amounts to over R7bn a year?
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BREAKING | National Treasury has banned Bain & Co. from tendering for public sector contracts for a period of 10 years [5 September 2022-4 September 2032] for engaging in corrupt and fraudulent practices related to SARS.
🥳🥳🥳
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Tonight at 19h00, Open Secrets is hosting a Twitter Space to discuss the findings of Part 2 of the
#StateCaptureReport
. Our team will be breaking down the hits, misses and opportunities the report presents.
Set a reminder to join:
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We cannot rely on the state alone to monitor the R500 billion expenditure. Past experience indicates a tendency for illicit profiteering by Corporate SA. So to the banks, auditors, consultants & lawyers-we are watching you!
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WATCH: The Enablers-The Bankers, Accountants & Lawyers that Cashed on State Capture.
The Enablers, our new investigative report with
@ShadowWorldInv1
, analyses the role of the private sector in corruption at Eskom, Transnet & Estina.
#StateCaptureEnablers
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About 53 weeks ago, President Cyril Ramaphosa claimed that those responsible for
#StateCapture
would be arrested and held accountable. However, there is little to no evidence that the promise is being kept.
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The Enablers: The bankers, accountants and lawyers that cashed in on state capture is available for download now:
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The wheels grind too slowly at SAICA - but finally we are seeing some movement... Yakhe Kwinana has been fined R6.1 million and barred from being a member of SAICA following a disciplinary hearing.
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Democracy dies behind closed doors — open the Lady R inquiry!
Open Secrets has challenged
@PresidencyZA
& the US government to make public details of the mysterious cargo of the Russian vessel Lady R which docked in Simon’s Town.
@USAmbRSA
@StateDept
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While the report confirms that SAA board members Dudu Myeni and Yakhe Kwinana deliberately repurposed SAA for ends that went against the interests of SAA, it also identifies the private actors, including auditors and banks, that were complicit in the destruction of the airline.
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JUST IN | Our new report, Profiting from Misery: South Africa's Complicity in War Crimes in Yemen is now available for download here:
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Civil society calls on Zondo to summon private actors including Absa, Bain & Co, Bank of Baroda, Deloitte, FNB, Hogan Lovells, KPMG, Nedbank, Neotel &Standard Bank — to answer on the extent of their knowledge of what unfolded during
#StateCapture
.
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#StateCaptureEnablers
- “If corruption & looting was potentially taking place in our public institutions...how was it that the auditors did not pick it up?”
@pwc_za
& Nkonki's 4 year tender in contravention of the PFMA earned them R69.7 mil.
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WANTED: Witnesses 41-101!
The Civil Society Working Group on
#StateCapture
released a list of 101 key witnesses to appear before the
#StateCaptureInquiry
. Witnesses 41-101 include some of most powerful corporations & individuals. No impunity for corruption!
(Thread)
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MEDIA STATEMENT: European authorities refuse to investigate
#ApartheidsBanks
.
After months of excessive delays & obfuscations over clear conflicts of interests- the OECD has dismissed Open Secrets &
@CALS_ZA
complaint to hold KBC & KBL accountable for profiting from Apartheid.
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'They take no credit & they accept no blame'. Read the latest instalment of our
#UnaccountableProfileSeries
- McKinsey & Co: Profit Over Principle.
In this profile, Open Secrets responds to McKinsey's 7-page
#meandos
response to our report, The Enablers.
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An important reminder that the accountants and auditors played a huge role in
#StateCapture
. As Judge Zondo said to Pule Mothibe of PwC: the corruption and failure at SAA begs the question, “where were the auditors?”
Part 1, Volume 1 is will take us back to this gem of a moment by Mrs. Kwinana.
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Tomorrow,
@SAHAnews
' battle with the South African Reserve Bank to access information pertaining to alleged apartheid-era financial crimes, will be heard in the Bloemfontein Supreme Court of Appeal.
#SAHAvsSARB
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In the past 6 years alone, globally & locally,
@DeloitteSA
has been implicated in audit failure, corporate malfeasance &
#StateCapture
. Despite this, there has been little accountability for the firm or its employees.
#CECRAuditors
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Open Secrets is running a profile series- Unaccountable on the
@dailymaverick
. Unaccountable consists of profiles of corporations & individuals who are implicated in economic crime but haven't been held fully accountable.
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A scathing article by Jessica Bezuidenhout on South Africa's failed international hunt for the Gupta brothers implicated in
#StateCapture
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#DearJudgeZondo
Corporations are key enablers of
#statecapture
please hold them accountable too!
@JillKronenberg
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#DearJudgeZondo
South Africa’s banks have told you that they were victims in the
#statecapture
story, but the evidence shows they were key conduits for billions in the proceeds of crime.
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Good news! The process has begun to hold Arms Deal Commission Judges accountable
for gross misconduct.
@ShadowWorldInv1
& Open Secrets' JSC complaint about Judge Seriti & Judge Musi has been referred to the Judicial Conduct Committee
Read more here:
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#DearJudgeZondo
the victims of state capture are the people of South Africa consider them first when you write your recommendations.
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WATCH! They Killed Dulcie podcast-series trailer. In 1988 five bullets ended the life of liberation movement activist Dulcie September. Why was she killed, who profited from her murder?
Join us &
@sound_africa
as we launch the series on the 27th of March 2019.
#TheyKilledDulcie
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MEDIA STATEMENT
#DearJudgeZondo
We urge you to use your subpoena powers and stop the bullying by those implicated in
#statecapture
, like
@PresJGZuma
. They have plundered the country's resources for long enough, don't let them steal our chance at truth & justice!
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.
@RediTlhabi
hitting the nail on the head. If we look through South Africa's history, any clear distinction between corporate and state power, and thus corruption, would be a false one. Elites across the board have profited off injustice and supported each other in the process.
I find this so exasperating about our society. "Yay look, this time it's the private sector, not us. Yay look, it's the government, not us"...so superficial. Corruption is a continuum kept alive by power, be it political, economic and/or both
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In November last year, Kuben Moodley was on our 101
#StateCapture
wanted list. His arrest last night at OR Tambo (as he attempted to flee to Dubai) brings us closer to truth and accountability for the mega-looting at Transnet.
Kuben Moodley
- Appointment as advisor to former minister Mosebenzi Zwane
- Role at Albatime in various Transnet, Regiments contracts
- Bank of Baroda account and money flowing throught that account to Essa & Guptas
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#DearJudgeZondo
there is an urgent need to call corporations to provide detailed evidence of their alleged complicity in state capture. We ask
@StateCaptureCom
to compel corporations implicated in state capture to appear before the Commission.
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Civil society calls on Zondo to summon private actors including Absa, Bain & Co, Bank of Baroda, Deloitte, FNB, Hogan Lovells, KPMG, Nedbank, Neotel &Standard Bank — to answer on the extent of their knowledge of what unfolded during
#StateCapture
.
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Hey
@BainAlerts
, if you do the crime we want you to do the time! Your sorry, not sorry letter in today’s paper doesn’t fix the pain you and other state capture looters caused.
#BanBain
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3 years ago, Apartheid, Guns & Money- A Tale of Profit by
@hennievvuuren
, with research by
@MikeMarchant13
was launched. The book is an exposé of the machinery created in defence of apartheid, sanctions-busting & the people & corporations who profited from it.
@JacanaMedia
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A summary of the money-flows testimony by Paul Holden today at the
#StateCaptureCommission
.
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Today marks 32 years since the assassination of Dulcie September- inspired by this tireless freedom fighter, we continue to fight for truth & accountability, especially for the powerful & the wealthy. Rest in Power Dulcie September!
#RememberDulcie
#TheyKilledDulcie
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Great news - the Open Secrets team is fully vaccinated against Covid-19. Our team is safer as a result. We support vaccines access for all people, everywhere! Please get vaccinated.
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Dear
@PresidencyZA
@CyrilRamaphosa
Given the deepening levels of inequality & the devastating effects of
#statecapture
, we write to you, to encourage transparency & accountability in the spending of government’s R500 billion stimulus package.
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MEDIA STATEMENT: Open Secrets &
@CALS_ZA
welcome the statement released by UN Independent Expert,
@IEfinanceHRs
who argues that our case against
#ApartheidsBanks
highlights the need for urgent reform of the
@OECD
corporate accountability mechanism.
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"The role played by a Boston-based consultancy in the destruction of the SA Revenue Service (Sars) has been well documented, but a former employee of Bain now threatens to lift the lid on the company’s role in the broader state capture project..."
- NATASHA MARRIAN for Busi ...
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Open Secrets is hiring a Communications & Collaboration intern. The deadline is 5pm on Wednesday, 17 November 2021.
Applications via other social platforms (Facebook, LinkedIn etc.) will not be considered.
#JobSeekersSA
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IT IS HERE!
Download your copy of the Corporations and Economic Crime Report Vol .2: The Auditors
Read about the Big 4's (PwC, Deloitte, EY & KPMG) role in economic crime at:
Steinhoff, Tongaat, VBS, Estina, SARS, ESKOM & SAA.
#CECRAuditors
#CECR
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We stand in solidarity with Zimbabwean human rights defenders & condemn police brutality. We urge the South African public & government to urgently speak out against this & pledge solidarity with the Zimbabwean people & their struggle for social justice.
#ZimbabweLivesMatter
.
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Last year, the Civil Society Working Group on
#StateCapture
called for Judge Zondo to use his subpoena powers to compel Jacob Zuma to appear before the
#StateCapturyInquiry
. The news today that the Judge has issued a summons for Zuma is welcome!
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Proceedings are underway at the Bloemfontein Supreme Court of Appeal. Adv. Geoff Budlender SC is presenting the arguments for
@SAHAnews
' appeal for SARB apartheid-era records.
#FreeApartheidSecrets
#SAHAvsSARB
Tomorrow,
@SAHAnews
' battle with the South African Reserve Bank to access information pertaining to alleged apartheid-era financial crimes, will be heard in the Bloemfontein Supreme Court of Appeal.
#SAHAvsSARB
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Paul Holden of
@ShadowWorldInv1
is currently presenting evidence of money flows at the
#StateCaptureInquiry
. In total, the state paid R49,157,323,233.68 to various contractors & recipients tainted by State Capture involving the Gupta Enterprise.
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Journalists
@amaBhungane
may be under threat of arrest in retribution for their excellent reporting on allegations of corruption by the Moti group and their conduct in Zimbabwe. Open Secrets stands in solidarity with AmaBhungane and their journalists.
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UPDATE: On Friday 02 July at 9am, the Judicial Conduct Committee (JCC) will hear the complaint by Shadow World Investigations and Open Secrets against the two
#ArmsDeal
Commission Judges (Judge Seriti and Judge Musi).
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Key myth busted in
#ApartheidGunsandMoney
-apartheid was isolated. In fact it had friends on every continent that supplied guns, oil + intel
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Arms Deal Justice Delayed- for now!
Judges Seriti & Musi played a pivotal role in denying
#ArmsDeal
Justice. They now seek to avoid accountability but we will continue to struggle for accountability & justice every step of the way. No-one should be above the law, even judges.
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Remember Estina Dairy Farm and the Gupta-linked state capture project? Meet working folks who still carry the burden of state looting. Why is it that the big banks and big politicians who facilitated corruption have not been held accountable?
What did Philemon Ngwenya the whistle blower for the Estina Dairy Farm corruption scandal die for? Our
@ewnreporter
team is traversing the length and breath of the land getting a sense of how South Africans really live. Join our discussion on the Free State on
#702Breakfast
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Lord Peter Hain testifying today at the
#StateCaptureInquiry
on the role of global banks
@HSBC
,
@StanChart
and
@bankofbaroda
in
#statecapture
. Hain says that London CEOs should be held culpable for their lackluster handling of money-laundering by Gupta-linked shell companies.
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Last week Open Secrets &
@ShadowWorldInv1
submitted the findings of our investigation, the Enablers, to the State Capture Inquiry. The Enablers, focuses on the role of banks, consulting, accounting & law firms in state capture.
#StateCaptureEnablers
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Matshela Koko
- Role in Optimum mine purchase by Tegeta
- Involvement in coal quality assessments (Eskom)
- Correspondence to Salim Essa and the Guptas
- Cancellation of coal contract of Just Coal (Eskom)
- Visits to the Gupta residence + Money received from Guptas
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We are hiring! An opportunity for three legal candidates to join Open Secrets and become part of our small team based in Cape Town.
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#DearJudgeZondo
there is an urgent need to call corporations to provide detailed evidence of their alleged complicity in state capture. We ask
@StateCaptureCom
to compel corporations implicated in state capture to appear before the Commission.
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OPEN SECRETS: UNACCOUNTABLE 00028: PwC and Nkonki: The auditors who clipped SAA’s wings
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#DearJudgeZondo
compel the following corporations to appear before the commission & answer for their role in
#StateCapture
:
@Absa
@BainAlerts
@bankofbaroda
@DeloitteSA
@FNBSA
@HoganLovells
@HSBC
@KPMG_SA
@McKinsey
@StandardBankZA
@NeotelZA
@SAP
@Liebherr
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[MEDIA ALERT]
This morning,
@OpenSecretsZA
and
@LHR_SA
are in court arguing for the release of
#apartheid
era records held by the
@VeteransZA
.
These documents will shed light on the corporations and states that enabled Apartheid human rights violations.
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We are HIRING! Open Secrets is looking for a legal intern .
Do you have an LLB? Are you committed to social justice? Would you like to work with researchers & social movements? - Open Secrets may be the place for you!
Applications close 31 Jan 2020
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This morning, Open Secrets &
@ShadowWorldInv1
represented by
@PowerSinghInc
will be heard by a full bench of the South Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg Division) arguing that retired judges should be held to account for misconduct they committed while in active service.
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As we look to Durban for the
#ZumaCharges
case to proceed - let's remember that his co-accused is a French arms firm that must answer for its role in corrupting our politics.
#Zuma
is alleged to have accepted cash from the same firm that armed apartheid.
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A recently published & redacted internal HSBC report, suggests the bank uncovered the Gupta multibillion-rand money laundering network as early as 2016. Yet when the report was circulated in 2017, 60 of these accounts were still open.
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Stalingrad. A descriptor of the now legendary tactics Jacob Zuma has used to avoid accountability for his alleged complicity in corruption.
Read the 1st in our series of Unaccountable profiles on the 1999
#ArmsDeal
. This is, Jacob Zuma- Comrade in Arms.
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Welcome to the party SAICA!
The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants has stripped former Eskom and Transnet CFO, Anoj Singh, of his membership. SAICA found Singh guilty of 12 out 18 charges.
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"It is clear that networks of powerful corporations, spies and politicians have operated within deep state networks for decades to profit from crimes at the expense of ordinary South African citizens"
Read the full 'Joining the Dots' Report here:
'Join the dots': crimes of the "rich, powerful and politically well-connected" to come under intensified scrutiny at the People's Tribunal on Economic Crime
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In this week's
#UnaccountableProfiles
:
@KPMG_SA
- At the Heart of State Capture
We profile KPMG's incalculable damage of some of South Africa's State-Owned Enterprises and its role in the
#VBSHeist
.
#CECRAuditors
#VredeDairyProject
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Deloitte's staff will be undergoing a 'specially designed programme' after yet another fine for auditing misconduct. It is disconcerting that the big 4 auditing firms are so inept (or criminal), that fines & training has become the cost of doing business.
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State Capture: South African banks must answer to Zondo, says report -
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We urge
@GovernmentZA
&
@PresidencyZA
to follow the approach of countries such as Poland & Denmark who will not be giving coronavirus bailouts to companies registered in tax-havens. Those who evade taxes should not benefit from tax-payer money!
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Today marks 30 years since brave ANC rep, Dulcie September, was murdered in Paris. We still do not know who pulled the trigger but do know she was investigating French arms companies' role in propping up Apartheid. Many in SA and France had much to lose.
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“It is clear that the ANC & Goldman Sachs (SA) have a close relationship & the president will need to manage this carefully” Lumkile Mondi (senior lecturer at Wits School of Economics) on Goldman's well-touted investment in the South African economy.
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The myth that executive pay matches performance is laid bare by Bob van Dijk's tenure at Naspers. Despite disappointing results, he earned R1.5 billion in salary, bonuses & incentives during his nine years - that is around R470,000 per day.
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An update:
@SAHAnews
has won a landmark judgement in the Supreme Court Appeal for the release of apartheid-era records. The judgment, upheld with costs, is a tremendous victory for democracy & our constitutional right to access information.
#SAHAvsSARB
#FreeApartheidSecrets
Proceedings are underway at the Bloemfontein Supreme Court of Appeal. Adv. Geoff Budlender SC is presenting the arguments for
@SAHAnews
' appeal for SARB apartheid-era records.
#FreeApartheidSecrets
#SAHAvsSARB
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Today would have been Dulcie September’s 84th birthday. Inspired by this tireless freedom fighter, we continue to fight for truth & accountability, especially for the powerful & the wealthy. Rest in Power!
#WomensMonth
#WomensMonth2019
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Join our space to find out how a politically-connected oil tycoon in Zimbabwe moved suspect funds from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to the City of London using front companies, fake invoices, & offshore financial façades.
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Just gonna leave this here…
What kind of controls did KPMG have? How does an audit company get swindled? 😭
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As South Africa celebrates
#FreedomDay
, Open Secrets and the
@CALS_ZA
are in Paris to demand justice for apartheid-era economic crimes
#ApartheidsBanks
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Open Secrets stands with Palestine. We call for an immediate ceasefire by the Israeli occupation forces & an end to Israeli apartheid. We also call on the SA government to prevent arms companies from supplying weapons that could be used against Gazans.
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Dear Tongaat-Hulett, we see you doing the right thing. We wrote to you last year asking that you go after your crooked chiefs who profited from corporate crime. Well done - now dig in your heels and bring back the money. Civil Society is watching 👀
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The lack of vigilance over the malfeasance at the PIC is particularly worrying. How does R3,000,000,000 go missing without anyone blinking an eye?
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How do we hold those implicated in State Capture accountable?
Join our webinar this Thursday, 30th of March at 6pm as we draw from a range of experts on accountability for State Capture Crimes.
Sign up to join the conversation here:
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Yemen. The worst humanitarian crisis in the world. Over 14mil people are at a risk of starvation & there are increasing cases of
#COVID19
infections. Fuelling this crisis are international arms companies. 1 of them is South African based Rheinmetall Denel Munition.
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WE ARE HIRING! Open Secrets is looking for an experienced researcher to join our team. This is an opportunity to contribute to investigations that uncover networks of private corporations & their allies profiting from economic crime & human rights abuses.
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The story of the capture of Eskom illustrates how the private sector colludes with the public sector to loot state resources. It shows how systemic corruption is in SA. To root it out- firms like Deloitte & McKinsey should also be held criminally liable.
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“In my observation, I say that part of State Capture, essentially, is just appointing consultants unnecessarily and siphoning off very large fees while the internal team has the capacity and expertise to perform them,” said Mothepu"
#protectwhistleblowers
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This
#WomensDay
we recognise the women who fought for our liberation & all who continue to fight for social justice. We recognise the tenacious women who speak truth to corporate & state power, many times at the expense of their safety & livelihoods.
#ProtectWhistleBlowers
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