CORRUPTION NEWS

Your voices on corruption: first quarter 2013

Want to know how many complaints we’ve received this year, what they are about, who they’re about and where the hotspots are? Be sure to brush up on the latest stats and facts in our first quarter report for 2013 where we Draw the line on corruption! <p>Your browser does not support iframes.</p> The game Read more >

HEROES & ZEROES

KZN health department’s clean sweep

By Valencia Talane KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo this week revealed the results of an intensified effort within his department to fight fraud and corruption during his department’s budget vote speech. Four years and 241 investigated cased later, the task team mandated to rid the department of bad apples deserves our hero of the Read more >

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Doctors who cheat the state: surgeon speaks out

By Zaheer Cassim Additional reporting by Nicky Rehbock Paediatric surgeon Dr Bob Banieghbal takes a sip of his coffee at the cafeteria in the lobby of the private Park Lane Hospital. Sitting with both hands behind his head, he stretches back and begins to talk about his career in medicine that began nearly two decades Read more >

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Your schools stories: principals behaving badly

Here’s a snapshot of some of the schools incidents* we’ve received from the public recently, so you can get a feel for the kind of trends we’re picking up: a service provider bribing principals to secure their business, a governing body flouting the law and booting cleaning staff off school property to house teachers. Service Read more >

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Your stories: prosecutor in cahoots with lawyers

Here’s a snapshot of some of the corruption incidents* we’ve received from the public recently, so you can get a feel for the kind of trends we’re picking up: lawyers bribing prosecutors and cops, a Transnet official selling jobs for R3 500 and a service provider being instructed to pay a government department R80 000 Read more >

FROM OUR CAMPAIGNS

Brave teachers a take stand against principal

By Corruption Watch reporters Our heroes this week are the brave teachers at Thubelihle Intermediate school in Soweto who contacted Corruption Watch at the beginning of this year to report appalling financial governance at their school, which was robbing learners of their Constitutional right to a quality education. Corruption Watch investigated the allegations and commissioned Read more >

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Bra Tjotjo gets his wings

By Nicky Rehbock The sky’s the limit for the ever-scheming and greedy Bra Tjotjo, who’s back this week with high-flying plans to launch a new airline, which will trade illegal goods and operate from strategic military air bases. By throwing in some name-dropping bombs and a wedding at Sun City, this new animation has all Read more >

HEROES & ZEROES

Corruption snapshots: 2013 so far …

By Kavisha Pillay It’s tough to keep up with the scandals continually staining our rainbow nation, so to make the task that much more manageable, Corruption Watch has drawn up a timeline of events. It’s quick and easy to check progress on graft cases, and catch up on new corruption stories. Like a one-stop shop, Read more >

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Make your own Gupta jet!

Corruption Watch’s recent series of outdoor public-awareness campaigns, which had a Guptagate theme, took our message from Zoo Lake – not far from the Gupta compound – to Soweto’s bustling Bara taxi rank, the University of Johannesburg’s vibey Bunting campus and then to Saturday crowds at Maponya Mall. We handed out paper jets at some Read more >