Zondo commission proceedings have kept many of us spell-bound. The scale of corruption revealed is staggering, and it appears that this is only the tip of the ice-berg. Politicians, businesspeople and public servants have given testimony, one after the other. What intrigues me is whether these individuals have complied with their obligations under the Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act. Section 34 of the act requires certain persons, who know or ought to reasonably have known or suspected that any other person has committed an offence of corruption, theft, fraud, extortion, forgery or uttering of a forged document involving an amount greater than R100,000 to report them to the Directorate of Priority Crimes Investigations, also known as the Hawks.. Persons subject to this requirement are those holding positions of authority, which includes the head or equivalent of a national or provincial department, municipal managers, any public officer in the senior management of...
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