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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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