Corruption at OR Tambo curbed - minister

Johannesburg - Drastic measures have helped curb corruption at OR Tambo International Airport, Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Friday.

"There was a lot of corruption there. People were coming in [to South Africa] without visas, who should have visas, and there were even things like ghost travellers," she told a business briefing in Sandton.

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Pikoli lambasts political leaders

Pikoli said South Africa had developed into a “kleptocratic” state – losing R30-billion a year in social services corruption.

He highlighted a need to buck the trend if the “constitutional promise of a better life for all” was to be delivered.

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Watchdog set on dodgy cops

This, he said, included taking bribes, embezzlement and selling jobs in the police.

Opening a two-day corruption-prevention seminar yesterday in East London, Mthethwa said the directorate should expose and deal with networks of criminals operating within the SAPS.

"Our police officers must be seen and see themselves as guardians of human rights. When [citizens are] affected by crime, they need to have hope that the police will do their best to protect them," Mthethwa said.

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‘Stamp out corruption’

Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa said police officers must be seen, and must see themselves, as guardians of human rights and the Constitution.

Mthethwa was speaking in East London yesterday during the Independent Police Investigative Directorate seminar on the prevention of systemic corruption. The minister said when society was affected by crime people needed to have hope that police will do their best to protect them.

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Corruption not for me – ANC veteran

ANC Veterans League president Sandi Sejake has hit back at the ruling party after it met the league’s leadership to discuss his recent criticism of it and President Jacob Zuma, saying he will not live with the party’s image of corruption.

“I am not part of those who are corrupt. There should be a lifestyle audit to distinguish the corrupt members from those of us who are genuine members who love the ANC,” he said. “We will not live with this corrupt label because of some individuals who are perpetrating anti-ANC behaviour.”

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Corruption may be linked to debt: MEC

KZN Finance MEC Ina Cronje says the province's financial literacy programmes will also target government officials.

She says there are about 200 000 government employees in KZN, and many of them are guilty of mismanaging their finances, like ordinary citizens.

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Carlisle warns driver licence seekers not to involve themselves with corruption

The MEC for Transport and Public Works in the Western Cape Robin Carlisle has warned driver licence seekers not to involve themselves in corruption.

This comes after Driver Licence Testing Centre Officials and driving school owners in Calitzdorp were arrested last week.

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Corruption Watch to cast critical eye over SA’s R850bn infrastructure plan

Recently established civil society watchdog Corruption Watch is considering ways to cast an anticorruption spotlight on South Africa’s R850-billion infrastructure programme, which is being led primarily by State-owned companies.

Executive director David Lewis tells Engineering News Online the programme, which government aims to use to stimulate industrial development, create jobs and accelerate growth, needs to be designed in such a way that it does not become a “hot spot” for dishonest activities and unscrupulous opportunists.

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'My work speaks for itself'

Gauteng local government and housing MEC Humphrey Mmemezi said on Monday that anyone who knew him, knows that he fought corruption and nepotism in the Mogale City Municipality.

Calls for Mmemezi's resignation have grown, following another financial mismanagement scandal.

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Unions not immune from corruption: Vavi

If corruption and factionalism are not resolved they could tear Cosatu and its alliance partners apart, the trade union federation's general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said on Monday.

“Unless corruption, incompetence and wastage is stamped out, it will continue to sabotage our struggles for a better life for workers and the poor,” he said at Cosatu's KwaZulu-Natal conference in Pietermaritzburg.

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