Arms commission holds great significance for country
By Lee-Ann Alfreds Just 750m apart, two different legal proceedings are underway in the heart of Pretoria. Both are intriguing, will influence the way South Africa is viewed around the […]
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Officials invoke imaginary rule
Dear Corruption Watch My organisation has submitted two applications for information under the Promotion of Access to Information Act. We have been told we cannot have the documents we requested […]
Blade the zero for divisive talk
The cost to taxpayers of the Nkandla security upgrades is one that has outraged many South Africans. Citizens continue to seek answers from the ANC and President Jacob Zuma on […]
CW board calls for Nkandla accountability from country’s leaders
The Corruption Watch Board calls on the President and Cabinet to assume collective responsibility for the misuse of public funds in the upgrade of President Jacob Zuma’s private home in […]
Parliament, part 3 – getting citizens involved
By Valencia Talane South Africa’s Parliament is the instrument whereby laws and policies of the country are proposed and their merits and legality debated on, before being passed, shelved for […]
Parliament, part 2 – integrity and accountability needed
By Valencia Talane “Parliament has become dysfunctional in that I don’t know who my MP is.” This is a quote attributed to social justice activist Zackie Achmat in People’s Power […]
Parliament, part 1 – its role in our society
By Valencia Talane How does Parliament serve you and me as ordinary citizens and why? How do members of Parliament come to sit in its houses? What is their purpose […]
Will the Seriti Commission run out of time?
By Lee-Ann Alfreds While contracts, national industrial participation programmes, defence industrial participation programmes, credits, multipliers, scores and offsets have had a lot of airing at the Arms Procurement Commission taking […]
Whistleblowers are heroes – our new e-book
Corruption Watch has released a brand new e-book focused on whistleblowers. In the book we talk about what it means to be a whistleblower, who can be a whistleblower, how […]