Corruption Watch will release a report on Thursday 25 August 2022, highlighting corruption in the education sector. The report provides information on the different types and levels of corruption experienced in the education sector. Key focus areas are misappropriation of resources, maladministration and abuse of authority, among others. The sectoral report represents the voices of Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS
On this International Anti-Corruption Day 2021, held fittingly under the theme Your right, your role: say no to corruption, we pay tribute to whistle-blowers. These defenders of democracy and good governance risk life and limb to expose corruption where they find it and indeed, Corruption Watch would not be able to do its work without Read more >
PUBLICATIONS
NOTE TO READERS: The ACT report for 2021 is presented in a different format this year. There is no single published report – rather, this is a multimedia publication with four components. A press release | This article | A set of infographics containing the data in visually captivating form – available in high-res also Read more >
PUBLICATIONS
A new report released by Corruption Watch (CW) today, South Africa Needs Clean Hands, highlights the corruption issues that have plagued municipalities throughout South Africa for almost 10 years, as reflected in the more than 5 000 whistle-blowers that have reported cases of corruption within local government to the organisation since its inception in 2012 until Read more >
PUBLICATIONS
Corruption Watch, in partnership with Transparency International, is working on a project called Open Contracting for Health (OC4H), which aims to advocate for greater transparency in health procurement processes. The project developed from our engagements with other civil society organisations, when we became aware of a common frustration – efforts to monitor the implementation of Read more >
PUBLICATIONS
By Kwazi Dlamini As the nation settled in to a strict lockdown in March 2020, put in place to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, President Cyril Ramaphosa made a promise to the public; the promise was that government would help those severely affected by the lockdown, and it would protect the funds put Read more >
PRESS RELEASES
The release of the Corruption Watch Covid-19 TERS Corruption at Work report today highlights the experiences of whistle-blowers short-changed by employers in delivering what was promised as temporary economic relief during Covid-19. The Temporary Employer / Employee Relief Scheme (TERS) was introduced during the national hard lockdown as one of a range of economic stimulus Read more >
PUBLICATIONS
A report released by Corruption Watch today, Our Future is not for Sale, highlights the devastating impact of corruption on the lives of young people in South Africa, and how their prospects have been affected by the pervasiveness of corruption in the country. On this International Anti-Corruption Day (#IADC2020), the report draws attention to the Read more >
PUBLICATIONS
Between 2015 and 2018 we published a series of six corruption-related stories aimed at our youth supporters. The stories were developed in collaboration with the FunDza Literacy Trust, and reflect real-life scenarios that many young people find themselves in. Problems with an NSFAS student loan, exposing driver’s licence corruption, deciding whether to blow the whistle Read more >