ActionSA proposes scrapping the Hawks and expanding anti-corruption unit

South African party ActionSA has tabled two bills in Parliament proposing to disband the Hawks and transfer their functions and resources to a strengthened, independent Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC). Dubbed “Scorpions 2.0,” the proposed reform aims to improve investigations and prosecutions of serious corruption and high-level organised crime. MP Kgosi Letlape said corruption had too often been treated as a low-risk, high-reward crime and called for a single, properly resourced unit with expanded powers. He described the Hawks as diluted versions of the former Scorpions and said dividing investigations among separate structures was part of the problem.