While the Western Cape, Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal emerged as the top performers of the 2015-2016 audit outcomes, the province to watch though, if the implementation of auditor-general Kimi Makwetu’s recommendations is to be taken seriously, is the Eastern Cape. The EC doubled the number of its clean audits from four in the 2014/15 financial year to eight this year, and had only one qualified audit with findings – another improvement.
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Corruption Watch welcomes the decision by Brian Molefe to resign as Eskom chief executive officer. The organisation regards this resignation as being in the best interests of Eskom. Its prominence as a major state owned enterprise requires that the public has confidence in its operations, functioning and leadership.
A new sense of urgency and unity of purpose characterise public stances of executives to engage officials, writes our executive director David Lewis, and this anti-corruption voice of business has been sustained since December 2015.
A new nine-country survey has found a common perception that government is run for the benefit of the few rather than the many‚ in both emerging and established democracies. However, people believe there is much they can do to influence how the country is run if they are willing to make the effort. In South Africa’s case, this is 62% of respondents, although in terms of turning words into action the percentage is far lower.
After a four-year accreditation process, Corruption Watch has become a fully-fledged chapter of Transparency International (TI), the global movement against corruption. This means we are now TI’s official representative in South Africa.
Corruption Watch welcomes the public protector’s report and views its release as a positive reflection of the democratic processes aimed at ensuring that access to information is limited only in the most compelling and serious circumstances.
The full scope of the investigation into alleged state capture cannot be undertaken by the Public Protector, and accordingly a commission of inquiry must be set up. This is the main recommendation of State of Capture, the long-awaited report published yesterday.
With the withdrawal of President Jacob Zuma’s application to stop the release of the Public Protector’s report on state capture, the North Gauteng High Court has ordered the immediate release of the report. Zuma, with ministers Des van Rooyen and Mosebenzi Zwane, had sought to prevent the publication of the report. Van Rooyen’s application was struck down.