Programme News
3 June 2014
(News)
The legality of the new immigration rules implemented by the Department of Home Affairs last week may be challenged in court.
Incoming Minister of Home Affairs Malusi Gigaba last week announced new immigration rules which extend to visa applications, permanent or temporary stay and foreigners looking to set up businesses in South Africa.
But the new rules have come under fire, as some immigration...
2 June 2014
(News)
On May 15, Pierre Steyn, former secretary of defence, made an appeal to the arms procurement commission:
“An unjustifiable decision was made to purchase British aircraft at considerable extra cost, which was unnecessary. The question is why this was done. One of the ways of finding the answer is to ask who benefited from these irregular and unjustified decisions,” Steyn said in...
29 May 2014
(News)
Immigration lawyers say they will litigate against the new immigration regulations which came into effect on Monday on the grounds that they are incomplete and make it impossible to apply for several categories of visas.
The regulations, which have been in the making for three years, set down the conditions for visa applications for foreigners, including for work; the establishment of businesses...
29 May 2014
(News)
Prominent arms deal critics at the arms procurement commission say the latest round of delays over the acquisition of documents has effectively locked them out of the process altogether. Andrew Feinstein, Paul Holden and Hennie van Vuuren, all authors and critics of the deal represented by Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) on Wednesday accused the commission of making it impractical and impossible...
29 May 2014
(News)
While the commission probing fraud and corruption in the arms deal prepares to hear evidence from former deputy defence minister Ronnie Kasrils on Monday, lawyers for two critics of the arms deal have complained of unfair treatment.
Lawyers for Human Rights, representing former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein and researcher Paul Holden at the Arms Procurement Commission, complained on Tuesday that...
29 May 2014
(News)
Lawyers for Human Rights were prevented from cross-examining a witness at the Seriti Commission into the arms deal, they said on Wednesday.
"The LHR was hindered this week from effectively cross-examining Rear Admiral Jonathan Kamermann on his technical knowledge of the purchase of corvettes forming part of arms deal, and allegations of corruption against him," the lawyers said...
28 May 2014
(Press release)
Lawyers for Human Rights – representing Andrew Feinstein, Hennie van Vuuren and Paul Holden – have effectively been barred again from participating at the Arms Procurement Commission.
Barred from cross-examination
LHR was hindered this week from effectively cross-examining Rear Admiral Jonathan Kamermann on his technical knowledge of the purchase of Corvettes forming part of the...
28 May 2014
(News)
Rear Admiral Jonathan Kamerman has denied that Shamin “Chippy” Shaik, had undue influence in the frigate selection process and the combat system they used.
Kamerman is the former director of South Africa’s Project Sitron, and Shaik was the arms deal’s former acquisition chief.
This was one of several allegations and insinuations of irregularities in the contracting phase...
28 May 2014
(News)
Rear Admiral Jonathan Kamerman, the former director of South Africa’s Project Sitron, which acquired four light frigates for the navy in 1999, on Tuesday rejected allegations of irregularities in the contracting phase of the project.
On Monday, R-Adm Kamerman explained to the Arms Procurement Commission the processes, events and decisions during Project Sitron’s acquisition of...
27 May 2014
(News)
By the time he was 13, his parents had been stabbed to death by soldiers, his grandmother murdered and his aunt gang-raped.
Now the teen, who fled the Democratic Republic of Congo for South Africa with his aunt in 2011, is fighting to go to school.
The teenager, 16, is one of eight children who have taken the home affairs, basic education and social development ministers, together with...