By Janine Erasmus World Press Freedom Day (WPFD), marked every year on 3 May, is a day of both reflection and reminders – the former giving media professionals a chance to think about issues of press freedom and professional ethics, and the latter prompting governments to respect their commitment to press freedom. But WPFD is Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS
Every year on 23 June we remember whistle-blowers around the world who have braved threats to their lives and livelihoods to expose corruption on both small and large scales. We also reflect on what we, as a society and as individuals, are doing to make the environment for blowing the whistle more enabling and encouraging. Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS
Many people who have followed the corruption scandals that have engulfed the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) over the years will recall one in particular that involved the qualifications fraud case of its former head engineer, Daniel Mtimkulu. He was convicted of fraud and corruption in 2022 by the Gauteng High Court, after Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS
South Africa’s highly-anticipated national and provincial elections went off smoothly for the most part on 29 May 2024, though the voter turnout of just over 58% was disappointing but not unexpected. Nevertheless, the country’s Independent Electoral Commission, as well as the South African Human Rights Commission, declared the event free and fair after several days Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS
Parliament secretary Xolile George briefed the media and the country on Thursday 13 June on the state of readiness for the scheduled first sittings of the seventh parliament’s National Assembly (NA) and National Council of Provinces (NCOP). The sittings take place on 14 and 15 June 2024, respectively. “We are managing … a mammoth task Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS
Government is currently developing a draft bill in response to recommendations made by the public to the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development’s discussion paper on improving whistle-blower protection, which was released in June last year. This was confirmed by Deputy Justice Minister John Jeffery on Wednesday 12 June, at the second Thulani Maseko memorial Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS
Corruption Watch has followed the Richard Mdluli case almost since the day the organisation launched. For years Mdluli, the former head of police crime intelligence, had evaded justice relating to charges of, among others, murder, attempted murder, and assault, and in a separate case, of corruption, fraud, and money-laundering. The former head of police crime Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS
Image: Flickr/GovernmentZA Zizi Kodwa is out of a job, out of the ANC’s National Executive Committee, and facing charges of corruption and money laundering. He also faces disciplinary action within the party, according to spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri, and has had to step aside in line with its policy for criminally charged members. Kodwa was the Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS
Image: GroundUp Corruption Watch has built up a substantial body of work in helping to expose and address corruption in the land sector. For several years now we have been part of an international research project on how corruption affects the most marginalised of our communities in this regard – our field work in 2023 Read more >