Join Jeff Koorbanally by signing in the interest of social justice for victims of a corrupt and prejudice system that is not being addressed by our so-called democratic government.

We demand fair and proper administration of the law, we demand an end to dishonesty and criminal offences undertaken by members of government who have been entrusted into positions of authority but are using such positions to acquire and retain illicit benefits at expense of our legal rights and claims.

Notwithstanding that we have a constitutional crisis in terms of apartheid laws, which are prejudice and discriminatory, being extended to our democracy for the concealment of financial crimes that may have benefited certain elites within the current regime.

The Bill of Rights is the cornerstone of democracy in South Africa, Section 32 of the Bill of Rights states that everyone has the right of access to information held by the state and any information that is held by another person, that is required for the exercise or protection of any rights.

An 'Act' is the exercise of legal power that the Government takes in order to create, transfer or extinguish a 'Right' and that 'Act' is effective in law for that purpose. The promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000 was enacted to give effect to the constitutional right of access to information held by the State or any other person for the exercise and protection of any rights. In the preamble of the 'Act', it recognises that the system of Government in South Africa before 27 April 1994 amongst others, resulted in a secretative and unresponsive culture in public and private bodies that often lead to an abuse of power and human rights violations.

The Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000 states that a requester must be given access to a record of a public body if that requester complies with all the procedural requirements and access is not refused in terms of any grounds of refusal as contemplated in the 'Act'. The information officer must render reasonable assistance, free of charge, and as is necessary to enable the requester to comply with the requirements of the 'Act'.

The information officer may not refuse a request because of non-compliance unless he/she has notified the requester of an intention to refuse the request and has stated in the notice, the reasons for the contemplated refusal. The information officer is also obliged to assist the requester in order to make the request in a form that would remove the grounds for refusal.

Requests for information have been sent to the information officers of the Ministry of Finance, National Treasury, Public Investment Corporation, South African Reserve Bank, Central Depository/ Unexcor, Central Depository Participants, Banking Association of South Africa, Financial Services Board and the Financial Intelligence Centre amongst others. Like their apartheid government predecessors, these organs support an unresponsive culture.

Act 23 of 1987: Currency and Exchanges Amendment Act 1987 is the related apartheid legislation that the current regime continues to use in order to steal, conceal and make criminal actions legal. This is a constitutional dilemma that requires urgent attention because the Constitutional Review and Justice Committees set to deal with such issues are complicit to these thefts.

To be 'just' is to give proper consideration to everyones claims and to be guided by the truth, reason, justice and fairness.