The right to privacy is not implicated by disclosure of party funding, writes legal researcher Matthew Kruger. At most, it is minimally implicated, because the funding of a political party is by nature a public act. If it is to be truly political in the way that it purports to be, the act of funding must be disclosed.
For knowing all along he was guilty but refusing to do the right thing by stepping down, and for not adhering to its own election manifesto by acting against members found guilty of corruption, Northern Cape finance MEC John Block and the ANC are our zeroes for the week.
We have passed the time to be thinking about corruption as a problem that lies elsewhere, writes Melusi Ncala. We all need to be aware of how we contribute to that environment of wrongdoing, and if we expect others to show behaviour of transparency and accountability, we should include ourselves in that number.
Southern Africa as a whole does not enjoy high levels of media freedom. However, in this region, there are moves afoot to address the problem – including the abolition of criminal defamation.
Our new two-part series examines some of the ways that governments in Southern Africa attempt to muzzle investigative journalists. In part one, a trio of journalists who have been targeted share their individual experiences with us. Look out for part two, which looks at positive developments around this issue, tomorrow.
For anti-corruption laws to work, everybody has to play by the same rules, writes Martin Kenney. In the Hitachi case, the $19-millon fine is “laughable”, and the politicians involved should not view themselves as untouchable.
Dear Corruption Watch, I receive a civil pension from the Government Employees Pension Fund. The GEPF is asking me to pay back about R32 000 of incorrectly calculated increments or they will start deducting it from my monthly pension. Is this a scam or corruption? What should I do?
Fifa: Sepp Blatter, Michel Platini and Jerome Valcke suspended Fifa has provisionally suspended its president Sepp Blatter, secretary general Jerome Valcke and vice-president Michel Platini for 90 days. The punishments […]
From the blog of constitutional expert Pierre de Vos, a thorough analysis of the Supreme Court’s judgment on the public protector’s powers which, he says, is a “clever and elegant answer to a difficult legal problem.”
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