Part one of our mini-series on South African laws that protect whistle-blowers focused mainly on the Protected Disclosures Act (PDA) – our main piece of legislation – and the key ways that it differs from international best practice. In part two we examine how the actual procedures for making a disclosure measure up. Our mini-series is based on a well-researched and in-depth brief published by the Helen Suzman Foundation,
Twenty years after the incident that prompted the charges against him, former head of police crime intelligence Richard Mdluli has at last been found guilty of four counts of intimidation, two counts of kidnapping and three counts of assault.
Corruption Watch has made written submissions to the Independent Electoral Commission on their proposed regulations to the Political Party Funding Act. The organisation’s submissions focus on the need to ensure that the framework around political party funding is as transparent as possible.
The psychology of corruption can often be boiled down to historical oppression, poverty and inequality, writes Tove van Lennep. While on the face of it this may seem like a simplistic view, asking why is in our collective interest because until we learn where corruption comes from, we will struggle to stem it.
How does South Africa’s whistle-blower protection legislation measure up to international best practice? Our new two-part mini-series, based on an in-depth brief published by the Helen Suzman Foundation, interrogates this question.
Corruption Watch has requested the parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services to exercise its oversight function and investigate whether the incumbent public protector is fit to hold office. The organisation expects Parliament to fulfil its constitutional duties in conducting this inquiry, and to do so expeditiously and transparently.
Christine Botha of the Centre for Constitutional Rights unpacks the significance of yesterday’s judgment handed down by the ConCourt against Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane, as well as the events leading up to it, and explains how this judgment will underpin other activities going forward, including the inquiry of the Justice and Correctional Services Portfolio Committee. into the public protector’s fitness to hold office.
South Africa has not begun to scratch the surface of the magnitude of corruption in the private sector, said Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng, speaking at an event on the eve of Mandela Day, 18 July. And it’s unacceptable to consider some people untouchable at the expense of others, because an “injustice is an injustice regardless of the perpetrator”.
The systemic nature of state capture, writes sustainable development professor Mark Swilling, means that for it to be successful, it requires the deep co-operation and complicity of the highest office in the land to secure rents, hollow out accountability, and maintain legitimacy.