On 25 and 26 October two civil society organisations – the Public Affairs Research Institute and the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution – jointly hosted a conference to discuss government’s response to state capture and the implementation of the Zondo commission recommendations, made public last year. The event, the second of Read more >
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Issued by: Auditor-General of South AfricaContact: Africa Boso on 071 365 3024 / Africab@agsa.co.za The Auditor-General of South Africa (Agsa) has been elected as the external auditor of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) for the 2024–29 term. After a rigorous bidding process, Unesco announced South Africa’s supreme audit institution (SAI) as Read more >
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Photo: Jaco Marais By Moepeng TalaneFirst published on News24 When the sixth Parliament wraps up its term ahead of next year’s general elections, it will no doubt have an array of unresolved institutional governance matters relating to state organs hanging over it. The legacy reports of the different portfolio committees will contain concerns of corruption, Read more >
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The Eskom saga in its many forms has dominated much of the 2023 news cycle, as it has in years before. From Andre de Ruyter to organised crime, from the minister for electricity to load shedding, the lives of South Africans arguably revolve more around this one issue than any other – even corruption. In Read more >
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Image: GroundUp A year ago we reported that the Western Cape (WC) police ombud Oswald Reddy had been requested to investigate allegations that police members and gang members in the province were in cahoots. This followed a biting Western Cape High Court judgment in a case involving the 28s gang, delivered on 17 October 2022, Read more >
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By Edwin MuhumuzaFirst published on Open Contracting Partnership Public procurement is like the heartbeat of public spending in most of Africa – by some estimates, it accounts for 17% of the GDP of African countries. There is growing recognition that the public procurement system can be a strong force for policy implementation, helping to tackle Read more >
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Parliament, in its own words, “is the place where the members of Parliament [MPs] look after your interests.” It is only just, therefore, that Parliament allows public participation and oversight so that people can rest assured that MPs do indeed have the nation’s interests at heart. This is vital in a well-functioning democracy, because MPs Read more >
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South Africa may have the National Anti-Corruption Advisory Council (NACAC) to help steer the process of engineering a clear and impactful national anti-corruption agenda and advising President Cyril Ramaphosa along the way, but the work that must be done belongs to everyone, and it will take the efforts of all of us to achieve the Read more >
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Issued by: Department of Home Affairs The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) will open its offices on Saturday, 11 November 2023, for five hours, for citizens to collect their IDs and passports ahead of the upcoming voter registration weekend on 18 and 19 November. Operating hours are from 08h00 to 13h00, for Saturday, 11 November 2023 Read more >