In the media
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29 August 2014
South African Press Association
The Seriti Commission of Inquiry is considering the decision by three arms deal critics to withdraw from all proceedings, it said on Thursday.
“It appears to the Commission that these witnesses do not have evidence to put before it and want the commission to help them search for possible proof for the allegations of wrongdoing in the arms procurement process,” spokesman William Baloyi said in a statement.
“And if their approach is to be followed this commission will still be here in 2016 and possibly beyond.”
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29 August 2014
SABC News
Three key witnesses at the hearing into the mutli-billion rand Arms Deal on Thursday called for the probe to be dissolved.
Andrew Feinstein, Paul Holden and Hennie van Vuuren were scheduled to testify at the Seriti Commission but have withdrawn from proceedings. The trio have called for an independent criminal probe.
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28 August 2014
Mail & Guardian Online
Three arms deal critics and phase two witnesses, Andrew Feinstein, Hennie Van Vuuren and Paul Holden, have pulled out of the arms deal commission, citing “fatal concerns” with the way the commission has been run.
The three, represented at the commission by Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), announced their decision on Thursday.
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28 August 2014
Talk Radio 702
Andrew Feinstein, Hennie van Vuuren and Paul Holden have withdrawn all participation in the Seriti Commission of Inquiry into the R70 billion Arms Deal.
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22 August 2014
Daily Maverick
After Llewellyn Smith was brutally assaulted, stripped naked, electro-shocked and tortured in the Leeuwkop Max C prison showers last week, his wife Malanie brought an urgent application in the South Gauteng High Court requesting that her husband was granted permission to see a private medical practitioner, that he was x-rayed and permitted to lay charges with the SAPS.
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14 August 2014
SABC Newsroom
The Department of Home Affairs has announced the ZSP for Zimbabweans with permits from the 2010 dispensation but concerns remain. LHR's Kaajal Ramjathan-Keogh explains.
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8 August 2014
Mail & Guardian
Judy Manjoro (49) is a teacher, but when she fled Zimbabwe in 2005 during political violence and came to South Africa, she was forced to become a domestic worker because there was no other work available.
In the afternoons when she returned to her home in Yeoville, Johannesburg, she would gather the children of other refugees off the streets and give them lessons.
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8 August 2014
Mail & Guardian
Two advocates who quit as evidence leaders of the arms deal commission two weeks ago have given a damning insight into the inner workings of the investigation.
The 15-page joint letter of resignation by advocates Barry Skinner SC and Carol Sibiya seems to back the view of most critics that the commission is nothing but a cover-up of corruption in the multibillion-rand deal.
Skinner and Sibiya say:
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5 August 2014
Pretoria News
Three weeks after the Gauteng North High court ordered that a 12-year-old Somali girl be placed on a waiting list for heart surgery, she is still waiting for the operation.
There are 43 other children requiring similar surgery at Steve Biko Academic Hospital and the girl’s family is worried she may die while on the waiting list.
The girl, who cannot be named because she is a minor, approached the North Gauteng High Court three weeks ago through her brother and the Lawyers for Human Rights.
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21 July 2014
Mail & Guardian
Phase two of the arms procurement commission’s public hearings will start on Monday. Now, the commission will deal with the second leg of its terms of reference: allegations of fraud and corruption. It has called a number of authors, arms deal critics and activists, to present evidence.
Richard Young will be this phase’s first witness. Besides being the first of the so-called “critics” to give evidence to the commission, his testimony will also provide insight into the purchasing of four patrol corvettes for the South African navy.
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