CORRUPTION NEWSNo warm welcome from Home Affairs at Beit Bridge 22 Oct 2019, 9:43 • The queue outside the Beit Bridge border post between South Africa and Zimbabwe. Image: Barbara Dale-Jones. By Barbara Dale-JonesFirst published by The Daily Maverick ‘We cannot have a Home Affairs department that is corrupt,’ declared President Cyril Ramaphosa in early October – while Barbara Dale-Jones was experiencing exactly that while travelling to Zimbabwe. As Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS Can social media help anti-corruption drives? 21 Oct 2019, 12:13 • Nigerian citizens have turned to social media to keep tabs on infrastructure projects. Image: Shutterstock By Tolu Olarewaju First published by The Conversation Corruption can have a crippling effect on a country’s economy. This is why African businesses have described ending corruption as “priority number one”. Take Nigeria, where the basic infrastructure deficit is huge but funds to Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS How SA’s BEE initiative empowered the powerful 17 Oct 2019, 10:20 By Khadija Sharife and Mark Anderson First published by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project Regiments Capital, a boutique South African securities investment firm, earned more than R891-million ($58.7-million) in shares by taking advantage of a government initiative designed to mitigate the inequality of 50 years of apartheid, an OCCRP investigation reveals. Regiments has already been Read more >
OPINIONS South Sudan oil investment could be risky for SA 10 Oct 2019, 9:06 By David LewsFirst published in Business Day The Africa Oil and Power (AOP) Conference taking place in Cape Town this week is a high-powered event bringing together African governments and top executives of corporates across the energy value chain. The AOP website describes it as “the venue for deal-making with Africa’s emerging enterprises and economies” Read more >
OUTREACH AND EVENTS Net must close on vultures circling community mines 19 Sep 2019, 9:45 By Mashudu MasuthaFirst published in Business Day It is no secret that management of the broader societal issues in mining leaves much to be desired and that much of the dissatisfaction is attributed to the long history of mismanagement of community benefits and mining royalties. The 2018 Corruption Watch report on mining royalties illustrated the Read more >
LEGISLATION AND SUBMISSIONS High Court’s Seriti judgment should cheer commission-weary SA 09 Sep 2019, 10:40 By Caroline James and Tara DavisFirst published on Maverick Citizen When Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane suggested in Parliament last month that President Cyril Ramaphosa appoint a commission of inquiry into the disgraced company Bosasa (now known as African Global Operations), the collective sigh of exasperation around the country was almost audible. Commissions of inquiry Read more >
OPINIONS Dept of agriculture and land reform needs a clean-up 26 Aug 2019, 10:15 By Deborah Mutemwa-Tumbo and Caroline JamesFirst published on Daily Maverick South Africa’s labour laws have been weaponised against people of integrity to facilitate corruption and state capture. The Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture (Zondo Commission) remains the story dominating news headlines in South Africa, and as one high-profile figure after another reveals Read more >
OPINIONS Understanding the psychology of corruption in SA 30 Jul 2019, 10:06 By Tove van LennepFirst published on Daily Maverick The idea that corrupt public servants are morally deficient obscures the fact that morality is frequently invoked to legitimise corruption itself. South African public servants usually accept that their corrupt acts are illegal, but stress that they are also moral; performed in the name of some social Read more >
OPINIONS Flouting constitutional duties will not be tolerated 23 Jul 2019, 9:20 The judgment handed down yesterday against the public protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, in the case of ABSA Bank and Others v the Public Protector and Others, is profoundly significant for a number of reasons. Christine Botha of the Centre for Constitutional Rights unpacks the significance of yesterday’s judgment, reminds us of the events leading up to Read more >
