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Corruption-watching starts as schools go back

As bells ring and classes kick off for the 2013 academic year, Corruption Watch begins its monitoring of schools – a big focus for the organisation this year. Since launching we’ve received more than 60 reports of possible corruption in schools, mostly involving the embezzlement of funds by principals and administrators, corruption in procurement processes Read more >

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Cyril Ramaphosa’s conflict of interest

This article was originally published by Leadership Online. Read the original here. Deputy ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa is off the hook for the moment as he’s not been asked to serve in government yet – and ANC officials don’t have to declare their business interests to the party. But, if he is made a public Read more >

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Putting a lid on explosive tender rot

By David Ondráčka When the phone rang, it was clear the caller was scared. He worked in the government, he said. He had information on a huge public tender that he needed to share. He had tried to complain to his superiors about the bidding process, but they had rebuffed his allegations. Now he wanted Read more >

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Getting to grips with ‘conflict of interest’

Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi didn't mince his words last year when he said the biggest threat to South Africa’s democracy is the conflict of interest entered into by government leaders. He also called for a resolution to ban all public officials from doing business with the government, and to extend that to political leaders Read more >

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ANC’s new integrity commission raises eyebrows

News of establishing a Renewal Integrity Commission, announced by the ANC at its 53rd elective congress in Mangaung this week, has been met with cynicism by members of the public, who voiced their opinions on social media networks. What particularly concerns South Africans is the fact that members of the party’s 80-member National Executive Council Read more >

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Rot won’t stay at bay

South African perceptions that the country is increasingly corrupt were already set when Corruption Watch (CW) was launched on Joburg’s Constitution Hill in January this year, head of communications at Corruption Watch Bongi Mlangeni wrote in City Press on International Anti-Corruption Day on 9 December 2012. She continued: We set out to expose and campaign Read more >

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Corruption Watch in the press

The last seven days have been busy for Corruption Watch, with the mid-week release of Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perceptions Index on the one hand, and a campaign by the organisation ahead of International Anti-Corruption Day on 9 December 2012. Local media made a lot of noise about the index – understandably so – as Read more >

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Business must stop rot of corruption

Another year – and a further slide down the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index, Corruption Watch director David Lewis wrote in the Sunday Times on International Anti-Corruption Day on 9 December 2012. To read the clip as a JPEG, click here. Image Excerpt Another year – and a further slide down the Transparency International Corruption Read more >

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Ban civil servants from doing deals with state – Vavi

Public officials involved in corruption don’t fear the consequences of their actions due to a culture of non-accountability, and lifestyle audits of these individuals are necessary. This is one of the key points that came out of the International Anti-Corruption Day roundtable discussion at the Unisa in Pretoria on Monday 10 December 2012. Cosatu general Read more >