UNODC assists Senegal in its fight against money-laundering An intensive training on financial investigation delivered to Senegalese authorities ended on 22 May. Organized by UNODC, through its Global Programme against […]
In April Corruption Watch was one of many organisations which signed its name to an open letter to the AU, protesting the manner in which the South African government addressed […]
The cost of corruption is much higher than would seem at first glance. If you want to understand why Corruption Watch, Transparency International, and all the other organisations fighting corruption […]
Another bad police story – our zero this week is former deputy national police commissioner Lieutenant-General Hamilton Hlela, who has pleaded guilty in Pretoria’s Specialised Commercial Crimes Court to corruption […]
People are often required, when registering their businesses with the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission, to pay an extra “fee” to a “runner” who takes the application through the system. It seems that this fee is shared with a commission official, effectively for providing something to which the member of the public is entitled. How do we avoid this corrupt extortion?
President Jacob Zuma received “financial benefit” from the arms deal. And there was “prima facie” evidence of corruption involving the president and related to the deal, the Arms Procurement Commission heard last month.
Municipal employees, councillors, their relatives and broader public servants benefited from municipality contracts worth over R800-million between 2013 and 2014. This was revealed by auditor-general Kimi Makwetu in his latest […]
Corruption Watch has made submissions on the draft Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) amendment bill. The treasury published the bill on 21 April, and invited public comment until 31 May. The […]
An open, democratic government system that gives its citizens access to information on its plans, its spending patterns and its services – it's the ideal that the world’s open data […]
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