Toy guns that cost R25m
Our zero for this week is Matlosana Local Municipality, for paying a security company R25-million of taxpayers’ money over a 22-year period – a company that armed its security officers with toy guns.
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Act protects workplace whistleblowers
Dear Corruption Watch, as an employee, I want to blow the whistle on something going on, but my employment contract refers to confidentiality of information obtained during the scope of my work. Does the whistle-blowers act trump such legislation or company policy making disclosure of information criminal?
South Africans need to update their activism
Effective civil society mobilisation won’t work with constant invocations of an idealised past and the memory of leaders long gone, writes David Lewis – nowadays it requires engagement with contemporary culture, contemporary icons, and contemporary concerns.
Vavi: Corruption at root of Eskom load shedding
The connection between corruption and the failure to deliver basic services was glaring, said CW hoard member Zwelinzima Vavi on Thursday. The electricity, education and health sectors were suffering because of corruption.
Global corruption snapshots: 10 September 2015
Some of the corruption stories that made headlines around the world this week.
Another step towards effective govt tendering
The newly launched central supplier database will be the source of all supplier information for all organs of state, and will reduce duplication of effort and cost for both business and government. At the same time it will facilitate electronic procurement processes.
Putrajaya Declaration: Zero Tolerance for Impunity
Delegates at the 16th IACC have adopted the Putrajaya Declaration, which calls for grand corruption to be made an international crime, and also insists on full independence and autonomy for all anti-corruption bodies, among others.
Checks and balances mainly after the fact
Dear Corruption Watch, I am concerned that many high-profile and important positions in South Africa made by the president are compromised from the start, like the national prosecutions head. What alternatives to presidential appointment are there in South Africa and other countries?
Global corruption snapshots: 03 September 2015
Some of the corruption stories that made headlines around the world this week.