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.
Since the establishment in 2009 of the Directorate of Priority Crime Investigations – better known as the Hawks – arrest and conviction rates for serious crime and corruption have declined year on year, and today the success rate is a fraction of what it was six years ago.
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Corruption remains a major cost for honest companies – in the 2015/2016 International Business Attitudes to Corruption survey, 30% of respondents believe they have lost deals where strong circumstantial evidence pointed to bribery by the successful competitor. The survey was conducted by global business risk consultancy Control Risks, and released in mid-October.