CW has made submissions on the draft amendments to the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development regulations, which were published at the end of 2019 with calls for public comment. The points raised in this submission are in line with our body of work in the mining sector.
At the 2020 Alternative Mining Indaba, which runs from 3 – 5 February in Cape Town, Corruption Watch will host two important sessions that address specific challenges in the extractive industry sector, and the impact on communities affected by mining operations. The sessions respectively focus on the issue of beneficial ownership in sustainable mineral development, and the role of traditional leadership and governance in terms of land, mining and corruption.
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The lives of patients and staff at a Durban Hospital are at risk due to tender irregularities, warns a KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) based medical association.
A sting operation by the police led to the arrest of a corrupt official of the Department of Home Affairs on 9 January 2020. However, this is not even close to the tip of the iceberg when it comes to corruption at Home Affairs.
The 2020 Edelman Trust Barometer, released last week, again shows that South Africa’s government is the least trusted of the 26 jurisdictions polled, and that global trust in the institutions of media, government, business and NGOs is ever decreasing.
The 2019 Corruption Perceptions Index, released today by Transparency International, highlights the importance of the relationship between money, political power and corruption. South Africa again shows no improvement in anti-corruption efforts and, says CW’s David Lewis, the failure, after a year, to bring the Political Party Funding Act into operation does little to inspire confidence in the strength of government’s will to tackle corruption.
A staggering number of countries – including South Africa – are showing little to no improvement in tackling corruption, the 2019 Corruption Perceptions Index reveals. The report, released today by Transparency International, focuses on the correlation between politics, money and corruption.
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