HEROES & ZEROES

Gauteng transport cleans up

The Gauteng Transport Department’s anti-fraud and corruption campaign was launched on Wednesday 25 March. Just two days later, a pair of officials working at the Maponya mall license testing centre were arrested on corruption charges. If the initiative keeps going at this momentum and crooked officials are brought to book, the licensing landscape in the Read more >

LITIGATION

CW goes to court to review Sassa’s payment of R317-million to CPS

Corruption Watch has asked the High Court to set aside the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) CEO Virginia Petersen’s decision to make a payment of R317-million to Cash Paymaster Services (CPS), a subsidiary of Net1 UEPS Technologies Incorporated, a company incorporated in the US and listed on Nasdaq and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. “The Read more >

LITIGATION

Success in legal challenge to Sanral secrecy ruling

By Tony Carnie First published in the Mercury Update: The Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein on Monday ruled in favour of the City of Cape Town by setting aside an order made by the Western Cape High Court on 28 August 2014 concerning the secrecy application of the South African National Roads Agency (Sanral). Read more >

DEAR CORRUPTION WATCH

No fast fix for questionable collecting tactics

Dear Corruption Watch, my neighbours complain that their municipal water and electricity bills are incorrect. When they try to challenge their bills, our municipality says that they must first pay the disputed bill, and then argue about it. Surely this can't be right? Yours sincerely Concerned Neighbour Dear Concerned Neighbour The law regarding the powers Read more >

LITIGATION

CW takes on GDE

Corruption Watch takes Gauteng Department of Education to court over battle for access to information In Corruption Watch’s annual report, it was revealed that most corruption complaints originate from Gauteng, followed by Free State and KwaZulu-Natal. The organisation received 2 714 reports of corruption in 2014 – an average of seven a day – and of Read more >

LITIGATION

A further Sassa judgment handed down

The Constitutional Court on Tuesday handed down another judgment in the case between AllPay Consolidated Investment Holdings and the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa). The judgment was for an application for the review of a request for proposals (RFP), issued in respect of a public procurement tender, worth R10-billion, for the payment of social Read more >

RAISING AWARENESS

Arms suppliers deny bribery and corruption

By Lee-Ann Alfreds A German arms company did not pay a bribe to arms acquisition chief Chippy Shaik to ensure they won the tender to supply four frigates to the South African Navy. Testifying before the Arms Procurement Commission, Klaus Wiercimok, senior in-house attorney for ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, denied the company had paid US$3-million to Read more >

HEROES & ZEROES

Don’t pay a traffic bribe!

Two Mthatha, Eastern Cape, traffic officers were arrested last week for allegedly trying to solicit a bribe from a truck driver. For having the courage to report the officers for their conduct, the truck driver is our hero of the week. The officers, both in their 30s, were arrested on Tuesday by members of the Read more >

CAMPAIGNS

SGBs succeed with transparency, trust and teamwork

By Valencia Talane When the school governing body (SGB) system works, it works very well. When it doesn’t, the consequences are disastrous and it is usually learners who suffer the most. This is the view of Thabo Shole-Mashao, a TV and radio personality and an entrepreneur. Until the end of 2014, Shole-Mashao had been chairperson Read more >