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.”
Justice Minister: We are building an ethical state and we are going to fire quite a number of them if they continue that way. So, lifestyle audits are compulsory.
CW ED Lebogang Ramafoko reacts to latest CPI: “It is time for governments and leaders to take decisive action in order to turn the tide against corruption.”
The official rankings for the 2025 Loeries have been announced, and Corruption Watch sits pretty in impressive spots in two categories.