In part two of our series on the Open Government Partnership, we take a closer look at South Africa’s action plans – that is, the efforts its government is making to improve openness and transparency. Part one gave an overview of OGP and South Africa’s role in it.
Our new two-part series looks at South Africa’s participation in the Open Government Partnership, a global initiative to make governments more open, accountable, and corruption-free. Part one gives an overview of the initiative and South Africa’s role in it, and part two looks at the country’s action plans in more detail.
A good investigative journalist has many tools at his disposal, and a network that he can call on at any time. The 2015 edition of Power Reporting – the African Investigative Journalism Conference, held at Wits last week, aimed to help journalists master those tools and develop that network.
In a new report, Transparency International highlights how G20 countries, including South Africa, have failed to honour their undertaking to fight corruption through implementing more transparent business practices that would make it difficult for the corrupt to hide or move money across borders.
South Africa is one of the majority of G20 countries that have failed to honour their undertaking to
fight corruption through implementing more transparent business practices and make it difficult
for the corrupt to hide or move money across borders, says Transparency International in a new report.
South Africa has underwhelmed in the Government Defence Anti-Corruption Index, released today by Transparency International UK. The country was placed in the lower half of the list and is viewed as a high risk for corruption in the defence and security sector.
Ahead of the G20 summit, Transparency International UK’s Defence and Security Programme will be launching the results of the Government Defence Anti-Corruption Index for these states, including South Africa. The index is published tomorrow, 13 November.
Gauteng’s education MEC Panyaza Lesufi announced yesterday that principals at schools in the province would be rotated every year, to cut down on corruption – he was motivated to make this decision by the Corruption Watch schools report published three weeks ago.
Over the years and in many contexts South Africans have heard rumours of ‘third forces’ which are blamed for causing dissatisfaction and unrest in the country. Most recently, there were rumours of a third force involved with the recent student protests – but Zapiro has his own ideas about that third force.
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