Entries by Corruption Watch

CORRUPTION GLOSSARY – F

FACILITATION PAYMENTS – these are bribes, also called facilitating, speed or grease payments. They’re made to secure or expedite the performance of a routine or necessary action to which the […]

CORRUPTION GLOSSARY – E

EMBEZZLEMENT – when a person holding office in an institution, organisation or company dishonestly and illegally appropriates, uses or traffics the funds and goods they have been entrusted with for […]

CORRUPTION GLOSSARY – D

DEBARMENT – a company is debarred by a government or multilateral agency when it is formally prohibited from tendering for projects that the government or agency is funding (or supporting […]

Int’l Youth Day: SA youth faces grave challenges, but spirit of ’76 lives on

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.