Entries by Corruption Watch

Class of 2015 makes the hero grade

Our heroes for the week are the university students who protested with great courage and tenacity against a fees increase that would have put a tertiary education out of the reach of thousand. In so doing they indirectly highlighted the problems of corruption that have plagued the national student funding body.

More arrests as Samwu hunts for its millions

The South African Municipal Workers Union is still looking for its missing millions – but more arrests have been made, after the arrest earlier this year of a consultant to the union. Almost R180-million is missing from the union’s coffers, and suspicions are pointing to officials from within the organisation.

Pikoli: SAPS must be depoliticised

For the police to be able to do their work efficiently and effectively they must be depoliticised, says our board member Vusi Pikoli, currently the Western Cape police ombud. He was delivering the keynote speech at the 6th Institute for Security Studies international conference last week.