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.
Did you know that you’re not allowed to put comments in the boxes on your ballot paper, or write across the names of any of the parties? In this voter FAQ, courtesy of thesouthafrican.com, we give you the final run-down on how to go about making your precious mark on Wednesday 8 May, voting day.
Unless there is a will to co-operate, not only with oversight authorities but also with watchdog organisations such as CW, the workings of municipalities reported to us by whistle-blowers will remain opaque, and irregularities relating to procurement processes will not be resolved. In part two of our local municipality series we describe four investigations which were thwarted by lack of co-operation.
Local government shows the health of public institutions at the most atomised level, says Good Governance Africa, which published the second edition of its Government Performance Index recently. Local municipalities are universes, where the historic legacy of the country and the current democratic dynamics converge to give a clear picture of the status quo. This look at the 2019 GPI is part one of our new mini-series on local government.