The necessity of improved access to information must be balanced with the privacy of personal information. Both are essential rights and each must complement the other. This question, and more, were under discussion at a Unesco event on 28 September, to mark the International Day for the Universal Access to Information.
Corruption Watch continues this week with its work under the European Union Rallying Efforts to Accelerate Progress project. The organisation, which is the project lead in South Africa, will hold engagements with various communities in Mpumalanga from 4 – 7 October 2022.
Former mineral resources minister Mosebenzi Zwane is out on R20 000 bail after his arrest yesterday and appearance in the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court. Zwane and two others were arrested on charges of fraud, theft, corruption and money laundering in connection with the Free State’s failed Estina Dairy Farm project, which was meant to support communities but instead enriched a corrupt few.
If your bank account is used to transfer the proceeds of crime – even if you are not aware of it – you may face prosecution and other unpleasant sanctions, if caught. This is the warning that Interpol wants you to heed. Through its recent campaign #YourAccountYourCrime, the police organisation highlights the role of money mules in the movement of ill-gotten gains.
Corruption Watch will embark on a three-day series of community engagements in KwaZulu-Natal from Tuesday 27 – Thursday 29 September 2022, with a focus on how coal-mining operations affect various communities in the province. The engagements fall under the organisation’s work for the European Union Rallying Efforts to Accelerate Progress project,
Public procurement—the process by which the government contracts for the provision of goods, services, and infrastructure— presents one of the biggest corruption risks in modern society. Monitoring public procurement, and […]
This Heritage Day, Corruption Watch intern Lesedi Masoko reflects on the centuries of malfeasance and mismanagement by successive governments that have, cumulatively, brought our country to where it is today – our sad heritage of corruption.
Research by the Human Sciences Research Council shows a general public perception that democracy is not really living up to the promise of what people want it to deliver. This and other information related to government performance. levels of public trust, and public interest in the electoral process, was shared at a recent seminar hosted by the Independent Electoral Commission.
The SIU has obtained a preservation order from the Special Tribunal to freeze the pension benefits of Philemon Letwaba, former COO of the National Lotteries Commission. Letwaba is implicated in the questionable distribution of funds to several non-profit organisations, allegedly benefiting personally in the process.