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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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By Louise Russell-Prywata and Tymon KiepeFirst published on Global Data Barometer Beneficial ownership is widely recognised as an essential piece of information for tackling corruption, preventing and investigating tax evasion, protecting national security, and creating sustainable trading environments. The goal – increasingly shared by governments, businesses, and citizens – is that people can access accurate Read more >
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By Sanan MirzoyevFirst published on Business Day In February 2023, South Africa will almost certainly be making an unwelcome appearance on the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) roster of greylisted countries — unless “we perform a few miracles”. These were the words of National Treasury’s Ismail Momoniat when he presented a grim account before Parliament Read more >
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Test your knowledge of tax evasion, tax avoidance, bribery, and more, with this short but educational quiz developed within the project VIRTEU (Vat fraud: Interdisciplinary Research on Tax crimes in the European Union), an international research project funded by the European Commission – European Anti-Fraud Office. Tax corruption is criminal, subtle, and dangerous, yet the Read more >