The Manase report into dodgy dealings by officials and politicians in eThekwini reared its ugly head again this week, threatening to add a few more bumps to President Jacob Zuma’s road to Mangaung. A summarised version of the report was released in February. It found that there had been more than a billion rand in Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS
The City of Joburg’s anti-corruption plan, tailored according to Corruption Watch’s recommendations and launched today, is a victory for active citizens who spoke out and took a stand with us against bribery and abuse on Joburg’s roads. Firstly, we’d like to congratulate the City for listening and taking action after the April release of our Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS
Yesterday the papers and news sites were awash with reports of a new survey which found that most adults living in big cities believe corruption is endemic, but what wasn’t so widely publicised were the other survey findings – like the fact that perceptions of government corruption have improved on the East Rand, Pretoria, Cape Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS
CASE 1 I was asked for a bribe because a passenger in my car didn’t have their ID Location: Berea, Johannesburg Description: On Joe Slovo drive, under the bridge next to the tall Vodacom building in Berea/Bertrams there was a police road block. The police officer asked for my driver’s Read more >
HEROES & ZEROES
“Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world,” South Africa’s first democratically elected president and living icon Nelson Mandela said. But recently Mandela’s words have sounded increasingly hollow as the Department of Basic Education, under the leadership of Minister Angie Motshekga, has come under fire yet again. This Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS
South Africa’s Special Investigating Unit, one of the bodies that potentially has real teeth to tackle corruption, is making headlines for all the wrong reasons lately: it’s been without a permanent head for the last 10 months amid allegations of bitter infighting and poor performance. We’ll bring you a more detailed account of its ill-health Read more >
HEROES & ZEROES
The South African Revenue Service sent out a stern warning against corruption today with news that a Gauteng man has been slapped a 15-year jail term for trying to bribe and then intimidate one of its officials. On Monday 15 October the Germiston Regional Court sentenced Humphrey Ngundwe to 10 years in jail on a Read more >
HEROES & ZEROES
"Do you want to be a 'star' in South Africa? Do you want the media to follow you everywhere you go and to record every word you utter? Do you want your picture to adorn the front pages of newspapers, and your face and voice to get into every household in the country through television?" Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS
More than 3 000 municipal workers marched against ongoing corruption in the Bojanala Region, Rustenburg, in North West today. News reports just in confirm that 50 people, who infiltrated the mass action, were arrested under the Regulation of Gatherings Act. “They were isolated and arrested when union leaders alerted the police that a group had Read more >