Time to clean up that untruthful, exaggerated CV
Lying on your social media profile, claiming you have a certain qualification from a certain institution, will land you in trouble.
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Competition watchdog warns of school uniform collusion
Some school suppliers may be colluding with school management, including school governing bodies, in inflating prices on school uniforms. The Competition Commission has warned that its spotlight is on this anti-competitive behaviour, which makes it difficult for parents to keep up with the costs of kitting out their schoolchildren.
CW goes to Supreme Court in CPS R316m appeal
Corruption Watch will be in attendance at the Supreme Court in Bloemfontein today, 10 September 2019, in an appeal to the North Gauteng High Court judgment in March 2018 that ordered Cash Paymaster Services to repay R316-million to the South Africa Social Services Agency.
High Court’s Seriti judgment should cheer commission-weary SA
Commissions of inquiry have already cost the taxpayer R296-million in 2019 alone, bolstering South Africans’ disenchantment with the usefulness of commissions. However, a judgment handed down by the North Gauteng High Court on 21 August, overturning the findings of the arms deal commission, may go some way in alleviating that disappointment.
The problem of corruption in professional services
Trillian Management Consulting, Hogan Lovells, KPMG, Bain, Bell Pottinger, McKinsey – their names are known to us, and not for their sterling work. These companies have been fingered for playing a role in irregular behaviour and transactions. This is part two of our mini-series on professional services and their role as corruption enablers.
Bua Mzansi – Appointing the next deputy public protector
Participate in the process that will appoint the new deputy public protector. Share your views with Parliament on the types of qualifications, skills and experience that you believe the new […]
Professionals – or professional wrongdoers?
Calling professionals to account for malfeasance is not always an easy task. While regulatory bodies do exist to oversee some professions, others – like management consulting – have no rules, regulations or regulatory bodies to ensure people working in this industry conduct themselves ethically.
Police graft leads the way in latest CW report
The 2019 Analysis of Corruption Trends Report, released today by Corruption Watch, reveals that for the first time, corruption in the police sector has overtaken other sectors such as schools, health and local government, in terms of reports submitted to us..
Dept of agriculture and land reform needs a clean-up
South Africa’s labour laws have been weaponised against people of integrity to facilitate corruption and state capture, write Corruption Watch’s Deborah Mutemwa-Tumbo and Caroline James. And the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, where such incidents are alleged to have happened frequently, is as good a place to start as any to begin reviewing and reversing the devastating effects that the abuse of disciplinary processes have had on our public administration.