Ten years after the release of the Panama Papers, enablers and tax cheats are still being brought to justice, writes the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. The organisation was one of dozens around the world involved in the massive exposé, which featured more than 11.5-million confidential documents from Panamanian law firm and corporate services provider Mossack Fonseca.
The 2024/2025 Public Finance Management Act audit results were a case of same old, same old. Only 151 auditees achieved clean audits – that is 36% of the audit base of 417 auditees. However, this 36% is responsible for only 12% of the total expenditure budget. Auditor-General Tsakani Maluleke explained that this means many of the larger entities, some of them overseeing billions of rands, do not get a clean audit as these tend to reside among the smaller auditees.
When corruption intersects with the basic human rights that are boldly enshrined in the Constitution – such as the right to equality and human dignity, the right to a healthy environment, the right to own property, the right to education, and the right to enjoy healthcare, food, water, and social security, among others – it affects the most vulnerable and marginalised in our society in the most merciless of ways.
Corruption Watch leads a group from 10 community-based organisations supported under the Strengthening Action Against Corruption project in presenting the preliminary findings of a corruption risk assessment report on local government in the province.
Corruption Watch executive director Lebogang Ramafoko will on Friday 20 March 2026 lead community leaders and anti-corruption activists working across the Eastern Cape in delivering the preliminary findings of a local government corruption risk assessment report to the provincial legislature. The report was carried out under the Strengthening Action Against Corruption project, which aims to hold local government accountable to their communities.
Residents resorted to protest action to get the Sengqu Local Municipality to pay attention to the water crisis in Walaza.
The road had been in a bad condition for a long time and, although other roads in the area have received attention from the Flagstaff, Eastern Cape, municipality, some work had begun on this one, but it was not completed.
The Special Investigating Unit recommends that all Department of Home Affairs staff be vetted to curb gross systemic corruption.
Holomisa: “The corruption and maladministration have not merely touched the state. They have engulfed it, reaching even into our law enforcement agencies.”