Public paying for vacant buildings
Taxpayers in South Africa have been paying for buildings leased to government but not being used for public office functions. The Department of Public Works (DPW) has been forking out […]
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Taxpayers in South Africa have been paying for buildings leased to government but not being used for public office functions. The Department of Public Works (DPW) has been forking out […]
By Janine Erasmus Big corporates have systems in place, personnel and financial resources to deal with legal and ethical challenges. They can absorb both planned and unexpected costs, including those […]
By Valencia Talane It was established in 1997 and claims a budget of R2-billion per annum for community development initiatives across the country in areas like arts and sports, while […]
Every organisation needs a good ethical culture and compliance with the rules, where the second flows naturally from the first. Monitoring and rating tools developed by Cynthia Schoeman, the subject of our second private sector anti-corruption article, help companies get there.
Dear Corruption Watch, Last week, members of Parliament’s justice portfolio committee made some worrying statements to the public protector. According to reports, ANC members accused Thuli Madonsela of “taking certain […]
In February 2014 public protector Thuli Madonsela published a report on maladministration and abuse of power at the SABC. Titled When Governance and Ethics Fail, it highlighted, among other things, […]
By Valencia Talane In November 2013 Corruption Watch reported on a case of bad service delivery at an Eastern Cape school that had no chairs or desks for its learners. […]
In our new series, we highlight the ways in which some private companies and organisations are taking up the fight against corruption. Our first subject is Consulting Engineers South Africa, a non-profit organisation and voluntary association, which has put numerous measures into place to ensure that its members engage in corruption-free business.
Corruption Watch notes with great concern the repeated attacks on the Office of the Public Protector, the latest incident involving comments made by the Justice Portfolio Committee in Parliament last […]
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