Auditor-General Tsakani Maluleke’s extended powers are starting to bear fruits, with more positive responses from provincial and national departments. She warns, however, that proper oversight and accountability measures remain a challenge, with only 6% of departments and other audited entities obtaining clean audits. Maluleke released the latest audit outcomes for the 2020/21 financial year on Read more >
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Image: Wikimedia Commons. Used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license By James StentFirst published on GroundUp and republished under an Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license A Prasa investigation has uncovered a multi-million rand scam involving bogus insurance claims.The scam was uncovered because of the honesty of one of Prasa’s lowest-paid people. Zethembiso Dladla came Read more >
Image: Wikimedia Commons, used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license South Africa’s law-making regime is another casualty of the corruption and mismanagement that was prevalent during the state capture years, writes Caroline James, advocacy co-ordinator at amaBhungane. Here she describes how amaBhungane and Corruption Watch had to rush to get their joint submission Read more >
Corruption Watch (CW) will host a webinar on Tuesday 22 November 2022 to coincide with the release of two reports advancing a case for greater beneficial ownership transparency (BOT) in the mining sector, namely Beneficial Ownership Transparency in South Africa’s mining sector and The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and South Africa, respectively. The importance of Read more >
Image: Wikimedia Commons, used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license Corruption Watch is one of more than 100 civil society organisations which have supported a letter from the Socio-Economic Rights Institute (Seri) of South Africa, to various members of the government, including National Assembly speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, justice minister Ronald Lamola, police Read more >
Source: South African government The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) together with the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners South Africa (ACFE SA) have come together to create awareness and encourage the public to take a proactive role in the ongoing battle against fraud and corruption during the International Read more >
Three years after the Fishrot scandal broke, none of those implicated have been held to account, nor has anything been done to plug the existing gaps in legislation which allowed Namibia’s biggest fishing scandal to flourish. In a briefing paper released in November 2022, the Namibian Institute for Public Policy and Research (IPPR) says the Read more >
Illustration: Storyset It is fair to say that many – if not the majority of – public servants do their work diligently and honestly, to the best of their abilities – nevertheless, government departments and institutions remain at high risk for corruption. The same applies to the private sector, especially in its engagements with public Read more >
Parliament responds to the Zondo commission, an era of accountability for former Eskom boss, and charges for a member of the judiciary tainted with state capture allegations. These are some of the latest developments in the aftermath of the inquiry. Koko in court over Kusile contract Former Eskom acting CEO Matshela Koko made headlines again Read more >