The Parliamentary Monitoring Group has published a new survey on public participation in Parliament’s consultative processes. The survey revealed that participants are neither entirely satisfied nor dissatisfied with the process as it is, and they feel that Parliament has to work harder to ensure that it garners a plurality and multiplicity of views.
On 5 July Corruption Watch and the Institute for Security Studies launched a joint public awareness campaign for transparency and merit-based selection in the upcoming appointments of the South African Police Service national commissioner and the head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations, or Hawks. It is crucial that the current serial crisis of top management in the police is addressed, as this has been identified as the root cause of most of the problems facing the police in South Africa.
Today Corruption Watch and the Institute for Security Studies highlighted the need for transparency and public participation in the upcoming appointments of the SAPS national commissioner and the head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations (the Hawks). The organisations launched a joint public awareness campaign around these critical appointments, and will advocate for improvements in the way they are made.
Corruption Watch strongly endorses the investigation by the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors into allegations of improper conduct of auditing firm KPMG, in particular its 2014 audit of Linkway Trading, the company alleged to be involved in the related Free State dairy and Gupta wedding scandals. We are a;so currently consulting our lawyers regarding McKinsey’s business dealings with Eskom to assess whether to refer their conduct to the criminal justice authorities of both South Africa and the US.
One of Corruption Watch’s successes has been the way it helps people make sense of corruption matters that affect them on a practical level, says our newest board member Sithembile Mbete. For young people, especially, the type of everyday petty corruption seen at testing centres and in schools often makes the difference between success in life or not.
Corruption Watch and the Institute for Security Studies invite media to the launch of a joint public awareness campaign focused on the appointments of the South African Police Service national commissioner and the head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations (the Hawks).
Media invite: The Lithuanian Embassy in partnership with Corruption Watch and the South African Local Government Association invites media to attend a send-off function for young people who have been selected to attend the Transparency International School on Integrity, which takes place from 10-16 July 2017 in Vilnius, Lithuania. The programme empowers young people with the necessary skills to fight corruption in their countries.
At a meeting on 29 June to launch the final report of an independent investigations into the affairs of the Trillian group, Trillian chairperson Tokyo Sexwale noted that the state has not just been captured, but “handed over”. The principal investigator, Advocate Geoff Budlender, said in his report that the information uncovered should be of “great public concern,” and must be exposed.
The auditor-general’s latest report on the financial performance of municipalities, released last week, shows a marginal improvement for 2015/16, but overall the local government had failed to maintain the promising five-year momentum – gained in the years 2010/11 to 2014/15 – that he reported on last year.
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