Wondering what all the fuss is around Nomgcobo Jiba, the recently appointed deputy head of national prosecutions? Read this absorbing piece by author Rian Malan to discover why Corruption Watch and other organisations feel she is not fit to hold the position.
According to the latest African edition of the Global Corruption Barometer, launched today by Transparency International and Afrobarometer, 58% of Africans say that corruption has increased over the past year, while in South Africa 83% believe that corruption is on the rise.
More than half of Africans (58%) – and 83% in South Africa – say that corruption has increased over the past year. This is revealed in Transparency International’s African edition of the Global Corruption Barometer, conducted in partnership with Afrobarometer.
Our zero of the week is communications minister Faith Muthambi, who is doggedly determined to fight for the continued tenure of SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng – despite several findings that his appointment to that position was unlawful.
Experts say there is no rational explanation why Communications Minister Faith Muthambi and SABC executives are intent on defending chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng at all costs, other than contempt for the public protector.
G20 countries failing to honour their undertaking to fight corruption, fines and convictions for bribery, more anti-corruption action in China, and more.
26 November 2015 The board of Corruption Watch issued a statement today in response to comments made by the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) at the Cosatu Congress […]
Provincial and national departments as well as public entities showed a marginal improvement in audit outcomes, said auditor-general Kimi Makwetu, presenting his annual report – but the results could have been much better if the leadership of those bodies had come to the party.
South Africa’s police force is one of eight profiled in a new book on police corruption. Using case studies, the book examines the causes and consequences of corruption in the countries in question, as well as the methods they have developed to tackle the problem.