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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We have entered the era of the corporate elections, writes political analyst Nanjala Nyabola, where polls are not arguably the pinnacle of democratic participation but are instead another business subject to the vagaries of domestic and international interference, and purely for profit.
When we think about trade barriers hindering developing countries, we often think of tariffs and regulations, writes economics lecturer Sandra Sequeira. However, research conducted by the International Growth Centre suggests that another hidden cost, corruption at border posts, plays a significant but underappreciated role in hindering trade and development
The former Prasa executive was ordered to pay back R5-million – the total amount he received as a result of the salary increases by a high court last year.
A joint public statement from Amnesty International, CIVICUS and Transparency International, issued today, explains why the three global organisations are distancing themselves from this year’s G20 summit, hosted by and held in Saudi Arabia.