Since becoming president of the ANC and the country, Cyril Ramaphosa has inspired and frustrated the electorate following the corruption of the Zuma years. A source of this frustration is the president’s delay in confronting and rooting out corruption. The Quaker Peace Centre (QPC) would like to remind Ramaphosa that he has the authoritative judgments of the Constitutional Court in the 2011 and 2014 Glenister cases concerning the combating of corruption to guide him. The time has come to revisit these judgments. The courts have set the standards for an appropriate entity to investigate and prosecute corruption: a specialised, dedicated, properly trained and resourced machinery of state that is independent of the executive (and reports to Parliament) and enjoys security of tenure of office. The time has come for such an anticorruption "one-stop shop", as the Hawks and National Prosecuting Authority have shown themselves to be inadequate to the task. We respectfully submit that there ...
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