Activists and civil society organisations, including Corruption Watch, have called for leniency in the case of #FeesMustFall activist Kanya Cekeshe. In a statement, the signatories maintain that a student activist like Kanya should not be jailed for his role in the #FeesMustFall protests.
Corruption Watch welcomes the arrest of Bongani Bongo, ANC MP and former minister of state security, for alleged bribery. However, the organisation cautions that there are many more like him still serving in Parliament, and they, too, must be removed.
Dineo Skosana, who is a researcher and PhD student at the University of the Witwatersrand. In her PhD research, she investigated what communities lose because of coal mining. The research was conducted in Ogies, a town that lies 29km south-west of Witbank (Emalahleni), in Mpumalanga province.
NGO Enact Africa’s latest Organised Crime Index shows how crime has infiltrated and infested South Africa and other African countries. On the index for criminality, South Africa was ranked at number 10 out of 54 African countries, with high scores for both criminal markets and criminal actors. However, it scored well in terms of resilience to crime.
Parliament’s Scopa is on Eskom’s case. The public accounts committee recently concluded site visits to Kusile and Medupi power stations and has committed itself to closely monitoring Eskom and to rooting out corruption.
Many residents of Ndakeni village in Mbizana, Eastern Cape, believe that the N2 Wild Coast road upgrade project is being pushed through by local government officials, mine owners and Sanral to provide quicker routes to transport the titanium that they want to mine at Xolobeni.
Corruption Watch legal researcher Mashudu Masutha asks why there is a lack of transparency in the mining sector. She argues that lack of transparency could pose a threat to sustainability within the mining sector, as could an increase in human rights violations.
CPS appealed the high court ruling, which was then upheld by the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) which held that the initial contract provided for the re-registration of beneficiaries of social grants in 2014. The SCA ruling was delivered at the end of September this year.
A panel discussion on political party funding was hosted at the Constitution Hill on Wednesday, 06 November 2019. The aim of the discussion was to engage the public on the importance of transparency and accountability.