The ink is barely dry on voters’ thumbnails, and already the electorate is demanding accountability – as it rightfully should. On Wednesday 22 May, activists protested outside Parliament as MPs were being sworn in, to “remember all those that lost their lives due to corruption and maladministration in government”.
The voter is the primary employer of all public representatives, writes Bishop Malusi Mpumlwana, and as such, it is our responsibility – like any other employer – to take charge and ensure that our representatives remain faithful to their oaths of office and put the nation’s interests above the politics of their parties.
Former president Jacob Zuma is in the Pietermaritzburg High Court this week as his lawyers argue for a permanent stay of prosecution on charges of corruption, racketeering, fraud and money laundering.
When we investigated reports of financial mismanagement in a handful of schools in the Eastern Cape and Limpopo, we found that provincial education departments were unwilling to co-operate with us in uncovering the truth of the complaints brought to us.
Corruption Watch will be holding President Ramaphosa to his corruption-fighting promises, on the basis of which he campaigned vigorously, and successfully, in the recent general election.
For nearly 20 years, communications group Edelman has been measuring public trust in institutions and people. Its 2019 Edelman Trust Barometer, released earlier in the year, has found that overall, less than half of the world’s general population trust their government to do the right thing.
Parliamentary and provincial legislature seats are allocated according to specific calculations, and each party is allocated its seats according to the same formula. We unpack the methods used to allocate seats in Parly and the provinces.
The votes are in and the results are being tallied. Follow the Independent Electoral Commission’s live coverage of the vote counting in South Africa’s sixth general election, held yesterday, 8 May.
Most political parties have grand ideas of how to solve corruption, writes Sabeehah Motala, but not many have clear strategies for implementing their goals. In this article she analyses and compares the manifestos of the top parties on their anti-corruption stance and promises.
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