Views Archives - Corruption Watch

Move on from blaming apartheid, ANC govt, and take responsibility for failures

08 Sep 2023, 11:33

Image: Arrive Alive By Moepeng Valencia Talane – CW Voices It’s apartheid season once again in South African politics – that time when politicians of the ruling ANC resort to inelegantly weaving the legacy of the gruesome past regime into rhetoric when faced with the task of explaining their (failed) duty to the nation. In Read more >

WHISTLE-BLOWERS

New CSO to focus on protecting, advising climate whistle-blowers

07 Sep 2023, 11:29

Image: Flickr/crustmania By Kwazi Dlamini Newly established French-based civil society organisation Climate Whistleblowers seeks to bring to light the plight of whistle-blowers exposing environmental transgressions against governments and big companies. Launched on 5 June 2023 – World Environment Day – the organisation also aims to throw its weight behind protecting those who speak out against Read more >

LEGISLATION AND SUBMISSIONS

Make whistle-blowers the focus of the law, CW says in DoJ submission

04 Sep 2023, 13:56

Any changes to the whistle-blower protection legislative regime have to acknowledge whistle-blowers as the focal point, and the objective to ensure their broadest possible protection should be a foundational principle of the legislation and the starting point for the drafting of any definitions. This is the submission by Corruption Watch to a discussion paper proposing Read more >

STATE CAPTURE

Can South Africa turn the tide against corruption?

04 Sep 2023, 12:28

By Busi MavusoFirst published on Moneyweb As part of our mission to combat corruption and improve ethical conduct in South African business, we have funded the Gordon Institute of Business Science (Gibs) to produce a guide for South African companies to fight corruption. Combating crime and corruption and promoting the rule of law is among Read more >

OPINIONS

Misappropriation of resources, misuse of power – Phala Phala’s best outcome

25 Aug 2023, 11:21

Image: ActionSA By Melusi NcalaFirst published on News24 Is President Cyril Ramaphosa gaslighting the society that he swore to serve and protect? This is one explanation for the fact that he still occupies the presidential office, cloaked in his reformist and anti-corruption cape – yet the Phala Phala scandal, broken down to its bare tenets, Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

CW calls for harsher sentences in cases involving harm to whistle-blowers

24 Aug 2023, 9:47

By Belinda PhetoFirst published on News24 Corruption Watch has called for harsher sentences in cases involving whistle-blowers. The organisation was responding to the sentences handed down to the killers of Babita Deokaran, a senior health official at the Gauteng Department of Health. She was assassinated after flagging suspicious payments worth R850-million to shell companies and Read more >

CW VOICES

Mandela statues: example of govt failing to ‘read the room’

27 Jul 2023, 10:10

By Moepeng Valencia Talane – CW Voices Anyone who regularly reads President Cyril Ramaphosa’s weekly newsletter would be forgiven for assuming that South Africa’s government is on track to make the “better life for all” promised on ANC election posters a reality. But they would also have to be living under a rock, missing the Read more >

CW VOICES

Physician, heal thyself before attempting to heal others of corruption

20 Jul 2023, 12:27

By Janine Erasmus – CW Voices “Nigeria and Afghanistan – possibly two of the most corrupt countries in the world.” This politically naīve statement (as we shall see) was uttered by then British prime minister (PM) David Cameron ahead of an anti-corruption summit that took place there in May 2016. But having covered and studied Read more >

CW VOICES

Enablers galore: the countries that contribute to illicit financial crimes

20 Jul 2023, 12:27

By Janine Erasmus – CW Voices In part one of our latest mini-series, we posed the question: who are the real corrupt countries in today’s globalised context? We considered factors such as beneficial ownership transparency, the implementation of the African Union Anti-Corruption Convention, and pan-African collaboration in anti-corruption research. The usual suspects such as Nigeria Read more >