CORRUPTION GLOSSARY – C
CAPITAL FLIGHT – this is money that shifts out of a country, whether legally or illegally. Illegal capital flight is intended to disappear from any record in the country of […]
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CAPITAL FLIGHT – this is money that shifts out of a country, whether legally or illegally. Illegal capital flight is intended to disappear from any record in the country of […]
BAKSHEESH [backsheesh, bakshis] – an Arabic term for a relatively small amount of money given to a beggar or for services rendered (as to a waiter): alms, tips, gratuity, pourboire. […]
A LOOTA CONTINUA – variation of the phrase A luta continua – the struggle continues. The original was the rallying cry of the Frelimo movement in Mozambique’s civil war of […]
Community media is a vastly untapped resource, writes Corruption Watchs Phemelo Khaas. For civil society organisations especially, they are an effective and efficient way of reaching communities and spreading a desired message. However, the sector faces challenges which need urgent attention if it is to thrive.
The hurdles that stand in the way of youth development could easily affect future generations, should President Cyril Ramaphosa fail to heed the call made on 16 June 2022 for immediate and decisive intervention. On that day, during the first civil society-led Youth Day Parade for Justice and Change, young people delivered a memorandum of grievances, which has neither been acknowledged nor responded to.
A new proclamation authorises the Special Investigating Unit to probe the affairs of the Lepelle Northern Water Board in Limpopo and the Eastern Cape’s Amatola Water Board. Both entities are accused of fraud, mismanagement and corruption, going back a number of years.
Former auditor-general Terence Nombembe, the chairperson of the Gauteng Ethics Advisory Council, is a man on a mission: he not only aims to detect corruption in the provincial government, but also to stop it from happening at all – with the help of Corruption Watch, the Ethics Institute, and other representatives from civil society, academia, and government.
There is an urgent need to change the way leaders and senior management are appointed to state departments and institutions, writes Kavisha Pillay, Corruption Watch’s head of stakeholder relations and campaigns Recommendations from the Zondo Commission provide a chance to pressure those in positions of political power to end cadre deployment.
With the news that Bain & Company has been banned from doing business with the UK government. questions must now be asked as to why South Africa has not yet debarred the company that assisted in entrenching state capture and ended up costing the country millions in taxpayers’ money.
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