This year’s Edelman Trust Barometer, released in January, shows that just 16% of South Africans trust their government to do the right thing. In fact, the South African government is the least trusted of the 28 nations surveyed.
Media invitation to the launch of Corruption Watch’s new public awareness campaign – Bua Mzansi – that will highlight the role played by the public protector and engage the public to actively participate in the nomination process, as is their democratic right.
Our experience in Corruption Watch is that South Africa’s greatest asset in combating corruption resides in the refusal of ordinary South Africans to accept that corruption is an inevitable way of life, writes David Lewis – and those ordinary South Africans should take the lead in fighting it.
Read our third youth-focused story, Pay-off, produced – as were the first two – in collaboration with the FunDza Literary Trust. This story involves student registrations, NSFAS corruption, and bribery.
On the surface, it would seem that Beaufort West mayor Truman Prince is not above manipulating procurement procedures to help his party, the ANC, with its election campaign. This is apparently the case, if a letter he wrote in December turns out to be the real thing.
Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index shows that perceptions of corruption in SA are stable, and this is for the second consecutive year, says David Lewis. This is a glimmer of hope – but the only way to shift perceptions into a positive space is to tackle the rampant corruption that is robbing our country.
Transparency International’s authoritative Corruption Perceptions index 2015, released today, shows South Africa’s score of 44 on the index remains unchanged from 2014, while the rank has shifted favourably from 67th to 61st, indicating that perceptions around the extent of corruption in South Africa are stabilising somewhat.
South Africa’s score neither worsened nor improved in the 2015 Corruption Perceptions Index, released today by Transparency International. This is a sign that perceptions around the extent of corruption in the country are stabilising somewhat, said Corruption Watch.
For Wits students, the fight that started last year goes on. They claim that vice chancellors and government are colluding to stifle protests by bringing in private security – but despite recent incidents the two parties did reach agreement on certain issues last week.