CORRUPTION NEWS‘An active citizenry on the streets can force change’ – Desmond D’Sa 21 Sep 2020, 11:22By Paddy HarperFirst published on Mail & Guardian South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA) co-ordinator Desmond D’Sa was a child when the Durban Corporation’s municipal police, the blackjacks, bulldozed his family home at Cato Manor in terms of apartheid’s Group Areas Act in 1966. They were dumped in Wentworth, a new township in South Durban’s Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS Covid-19: rude awakening to SA’s procurement failures 18 Sep 2020, 8:00By Thato Mahlangu South Africans have witnessed in recent months of the Covid-19 pandemic how our procurement policies and laws can create opportunity for corrupt people, including government officials, to steal from the state’s purse. An obvious consequence of this is that the looting hinders the implementation of essential programmes designed to eradicate poverty. In Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS Chains of corruption: a poem reflecting on SA youth’s struggle 15 Sep 2020, 12:30By Thato Mahlangu This reminds me of slaveryWe work for the corrupt onesThey claim everything to their nameAs if they have worked for all this they are stealingThey make us poorer each dayMothers don’t know what they will feed their childrenIt is darkColdWe are poorYet they continue stealing from usWe worked hard, saving the last Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS Beneficial ownership disclosure will expose procurement crooks 14 Sep 2020, 12:08By Cherese ThakurFirst published on amaBhungane Corruption costs lives. This simple truth has been grimly illustrated over the past months of national disaster, where front-line workers have had to brave conditions with insufficient or poor quality personal protective equipment (PPE). Many of these workers have contracted the virus, and some have died. In monetary terms, Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS Jiba timeline: where did it all go wrong? 10 Sep 2020, 10:05The reported reinstatement of fraud charges against former deputy national director of public prosecutions Nomgcobo Jiba represents a welcome move towards accountability for those who abuse their high-level positions. It also has important implications for the likes of Malusi Gigaba, who was also found to have lied under oath by denying he had given the Read more >
GOVERNANCE Zondo Commission – updates, analysis and other material 09 Sep 2020, 10:47The Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, Corruption and Fraud in the Public Sector including Organs of State Background and context of Corruption Watch’s interest in the state capture commission The work of Corruption Watch is driven by the reports of corruption that whistle-blowers bring to us. The success of the Zondo Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS Covid-19 corruption pushes govt out of lethargy 08 Sep 2020, 14:40By Janine ErasmusFirst published on Transparency International Along with other ordinary South Africans, we at Corruption Watch have followed with increasing dismay the growing number of reports of corruption related to the Covid-19 pandemic. The perpetrators of this corruption have been unashamedly brazen in their hijacking of the emergency measures put into place to deal Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS No to the termination of the special Covid-19 grant! 07 Sep 2020, 13:0605 September 2020 Issued on behalf of C19 People’s Coalition: Cash Transfers subgroup. The #PayTheGrants campaign is an initiative of the C19 People’s Coalition. We say no to the termination of the Covid-19 social relief of distress grant in October! #PayTheGrants until we have a basic income guarantee for all. The #PayTheGrants campaign urges the Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS Show your support for #OrangeMaskFridays 07 Sep 2020, 12:064 September 2020 Issued on behalf of C19 People’s Coalition: Cash Transfers subgroup. The #PayTheGrants campaign is an initiative of the C19 People’s Coalition. We, the undersigned organisations, call on the public to demonstrate their anger against Covid-19 corruption by donning an orange mask every Friday. The colour is symbolic of the orange overalls which Read more >
