David Lewis, executive director of TI’s chapter in South Africa, Corruption Watch, reflects on the country’s current situation and the tools available to civil society to fight back against corruption. This piece also offers a little insight into the type of work that CW is engaged in.
Join us for the launch of our research report into mining for sustainable development. The South African report is contributing to a global report on the topic, to be released in November by Transparency International.
The North Gauteng High Court will not issue an order forcing President Jacob Zuma to immediately establish a commission of inquiry into state capture, as recommended in the Public Protector’s State of Capture report. Judgment was handed down today. Judge Motsamai Makume has put the matter on hold, pending a judicial review of the report late in October.
New report shows how PAIA continues to be undermined The Access to Information Network’s (ATI Network) latest Shadow Report on the state of access to information in South Africa again […]
Transparency International has joined the #ProtectJournalists campaign launched in 2015 by Reporters Without Borders. The campaign, which is supported by a global coalition of more than 130 NGOs and media outlets, calls for the creation of a Special Representative of the UN secretary-general for the Safety of Journalists, a move that will help to enforce international law regarding the protection of journalists. Fighting corruption is a dangerous business; at least 780 media workers have been killed in the past 25 years because they reported on corruption.
Download the Open Democracy Advice Centre’s updated guide on using the amended Protected Disclosures Act. The guide, which is aimed at employers and employees, advises on how to make a protected disclosure, how to ensure the safety of the whistle-blower, how to deal with victimisation, and more.
Companies like KPMG should be made an example of, says our chairperson Mavuso Msimang. Speaking at a corporate governance seminar in Johannesburg, he noted that those who were involved in state capture should, after following due process, be given custodial sentences so that they don’t pay fines with money they have stolen.
In Mdantsane, East London, 27 families have been waiting for nine years for RDP houses promised to them. Instead of the six months that they expected, they have been living for nearly a decade in substandard container homes. Ward councillors and municipality representatives have had nothing to say on the matter.
A call for evidence has been issued by the newly-formed People’s Tribunal on Economic Crime, and the first hearings will take place in November. The People’s Tribunal is organised by citizens, and is not a statutory body. It will scrutinise the inter-connected nature of state capture in South Africa, joining the dots over the past four decades from apartheid-era economic crime to the post-apartheid arms deal and the current era of what we call state capture.