CORRUPTION NEWSEducation scandal deepens 12 Jul 2012, 7:46 When you are in a hole, the sensible thing to do is to stop digging. But when it comes to the delivery of textbooks to schools and the rot in the country’s education departments, it seems the corruption just keeps getting deeper. Read the updated textbook saga timeline here and the full cast of characters Read more >
HEROES & ZEROES Integrity has its own champion 11 Jul 2012, 13:04 By Chantelle Benjamin The Gauteng Integrity Commissioner is unique in South Africa – no other province has one. The position is modelled largely on a Canadian system, but its history has not always been smooth sailing, with the occasional court case, questions raised by an accountability monitor and a precedent set in a ruling that Read more >
HEROES & ZEROES Diary of a whistleblower 07 Jul 2012, 21:07 By Nicky Rehbock While Solly Tshitangano fought a lonely two-year battle, sometimes fearing for his life, the real victims in the sorry saga of Limpopo’s textbooks are the schoolchildren who have lost out half-a-year of education – and will struggle to complete the year successfully. View the full timeline of events here. Listen to our Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS Timeline of the Limpopo textbook saga 06 Jul 2012, 15:52 2009: Solly Tshitangano moves from his job in the Mpumalanga government to Limpopo government as the general manager of finance in the education department 2010: End of Feb – Limpopo Education Department chief financial officer (CFO) Ian van der Merwe leaves. Tshitangano is appointed acting CFO from 1 March to 31 August. During this time Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS Diary of a whistleblower 06 Jul 2012, 15:15 While Solly Tshitangano fought a lonely two-year battle, sometimes fearing for his life, the real victims in the sorry saga of Limpopo’s textbooks are the schoolchildren who have lost out half-a-year of education – and will struggle to complete the year successfully. View the full timeline of events here. Solly Tshitangano is a hero; he Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS Shebeen owners slam ‘crooked’ cops 05 Jul 2012, 9:30 Shebeen owners in Pimville, Soweto, have accused SAPS officers from Kliptown police station of corruption. They claim their businesses are raided regularly and that their goods are confiscated – even though they have trading permits. Police officers harass them weekly, the shebeen owners in the area have told Corruption Watch. They often confiscate their goods, Read more >
HEROES & ZEROES Gauteng ‘big spenders’ saga hots up 03 Jul 2012, 14:37 By Chantelle Benjamin Corruption Watch can reveal that the investigations into Gauteng Local Government and Housing MEC Humphrey Mmemezi and Speaker Lindiwe Maseko were presented to the provincial Privileges and Ethics committee today (Wednesday 11 July) and will be debated at a special sitting of the legislature on Friday 13 July, despite Mmemezi’s resignation as Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS Richard Mdluli: a comprehensive timeline 03 Jul 2012, 8:57 Can’t get your head around the convoluted saga of suspended police crime intelligence boss Richard Mdluli? Let’s start from the very beginning … 2012 26 June 2012 – New national police commissioner General Riah Phiyega appoints Major General Chris Ngcobo as acting head of Crime Intelligence and Protection and Security Services. 17 June 2012 – Read more >
HEROES & ZEROES City of Joburg responds after Friday zero feature 02 Jul 2012, 9:15 The City of Joburg has responded to Corruption Watch following our making them the "zero of the week" on Friday 29 June. In the response, Khanya Umlaw of the city manager's office said that the city would soon announce a number of important steps to address bribery and corruption in the Joburg Metro Police Department Read more >
