By Kwazi Dlamini The parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) is still seeking answers on the matter of tackling corruption at Eskom. This comes after presidential security advisor Sydney Mufamadi failed to provide the committee with information it requires regarding the ongoing investigation against senior ANC politicians implicated in former CEO Andre de Ruyter’s Read more >
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CORRUPTION NEWS
The state of the government’s bill for medical claims is a cause for concern, particularly because it has grown significantly over the years, to the point where some provincial health departments could not keep up. That is, healthcare facilities entrusted with the lives of South Africans every day are paying more towards medical claims than Read more >
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By Kwazi Dlamini President Cyril Ramaphosa, answering to questions in the National Assembly in mid-May 2023, has reiterated his commitment to clamping down on illicit financial activities and money laundering in South Africa. His statement comes weeks after the jaw-dropping Al Jazeera documentary Gold Mafia, which exposed an extensive network of gold smuggling and money Read more >
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The legal battle between the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) and the Road Accident Fund (RAF) over the legal standing of the fund’s accounting standards may be swaying in the former’s favour, but it is far from over. Parliament recently took the RAF to task for its relentless position on the matter, having insisted in Read more >
OPINIONS
By William GumedeThis article is sourced from Wits University website. South Africans are simply not angry enough, protesting enough and shaming the ANC government and leaders enough for their corruption, state failure and decay. Mediocrity, incompetence and callousness by government and elected leaders are now accepted as commonplace. They do not elicit the requisite national Read more >
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At the beginning of May, the Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA) presented its 2023/2024 annual performance plan to the parliamentary portfolio committee on Public Service and Administration, Performance Monitoring and Evaluation. At the same meeting the Public Service Commission (PSC), National School of Government, and Centre for Public Service and Innovation presented their Read more >
CW VOICES
By Siphokuhle Mkancu – CW Voices The Eastern Cape (EC) education department has been failing learners in the province’s no-fee schools for years, by not paying over almost two-thirds of subsidies due to these schools, according to a recent media report by GroundUp. This failure accounts for over R872-million not being allocated efficiently to help Read more >
PRESS RELEASES
President Cyril Ramaphosa chaired a meeting of the National Anti-Corruption Advisory Council at Tuynhuys on Thursday, 18 May 2023, as part of sustaining government’s response to the recommendations of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, Corruption and Fraud in the Public Sector, Including Organs of State. President Ramaphosa appointed the council Read more >
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By Kwazi Dlamini A recent report by an independent assessor into the affairs of the University of South Africa (Unisa) has recommended that the institution be placed under administration, and senior management and council of the institution be relieved of their duties. Investigator Professor Themba Mosia found deep signs of instability, mismanagement, financial irregularities, amongst Read more >