At the beginning of August, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) published a disturbing insider account of the global criminal trade in birds. An organised crime group – one of many in existence – smuggled rare birds from Asia and South America to willing buyers in Europe, making millions in profit but carelessly Read more >
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Glossary of corruption-related terms Do you know your baksheesh from your bribery? Your cronyism from your collusion? Read our evolving glossary of terms relating to corruption to find out what they all mean. Sources:U4 Anti-Corruption Resource CentreTransparency International A A LOOTA CONTINUA ABUSE OF POWER / OFFICE / RESOURCES / FUNCTION ACCESS TO INFORMATION ACCOUNTABILITY Read more >
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By Kwazi Dlamini As the world marks International Youth Day today, 12 August, it is time to acknowledge that the problems affecting the youth are problems affecting everyone. South Africans are no strangers to debating difficult issues of political substance, be it on TV and radio or social media, at the workplace or even around Read more >
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A new proclamation authorising the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to probe the Lepelle Northern Water Board (LNW) in Limpopo and the Eastern Cape’s Amatola Water Board (AWB), should cast light on long-standing allegations of corruption and maladministration. The two entities fall under the oversight of the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS). President Cyril Ramaphosa Read more >
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By Mark HeywoodFirst published on Maverick Citizen When Gauteng premier David Makhura launched Gauteng’s anti-corruption report in early June, it was accompanied by the first report of the Gauteng Ethics Advisory Council (GEAC), an independent civil society body he set up in 2017 to “provide independent oversight, advice, advocacy and civil society mobilisation on fighting Read more >
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International consultancy firm Bain & Company has been banned from doing business with the UK government for three years, owing to its part in state capture in South Africa between 2015 and 2018. The ban will apply retrospectively from January this year. In evidence heard by the state capture commission last year, Bain’s former South Africa Read more >
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Image: UN Environment Programme In October 2021 Corruption Watch (CW), working with procurement law expert Prof Geo Quinot of Stellenbosch University, released its first report that analyses procurement information drawn from National Treasury (NT) data captured between 2016 and 2020. The analysis was made possible by CW’s online tool, Procurement Watch (PW), which was launched at the Read more >
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Dear Mr President, The ongoing attacks on civil society organisations by government officials are concerning and must receive urgent attention. These attacks are unacceptable, go against our country’s Constitution, and undermine our democracy. This week, the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) announced that they are temporarily closing their offices after Councillor Nkululeko Mbundu, Read more >
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Anonymous private wealth. Luxurious homes, state-of-the-art yachts and aircraft, priceless jewellery, valuable pieces of art, and more. Symbols of an ever-increasing global problem of financial inequality, and a proven driver also of corruption and tax abuse. Such wealth in the hands of a mere fraction of the global population is unsustainable – and as long Read more >