The U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre has published a new study on the relationship between business integrity and commercial success. The study reviews and presents evidence and findings from 1995 to 2025, and the conclusion is clear – corruption is bad for business. "Evidence shows that corruption leads to higher costs, reduced productivity, and slower growth over time.”
The U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre has published a new study on the relationship between business integrity and commercial success. The study reviews and presents evidence and findings from 1995 to 2025, and the conclusion is clear – corruption is bad for business. "Evidence shows that corruption leads to higher costs, reduced productivity, and slower growth over time.”
Why not being corrupt makes good business sense
Corruption news
Secrecy jurisdictions are a core part of the problem of grand corruption, write the Tax Justice Network's Miroslav Palanský and Moran Harari. High secrecy scores provide an ideal environment for corruption to flourish, but by showing where these opportunities exist, the organisation's Financial Secrecy Index can help policymakers and practitioners to cut off the escape routes used by criminals and their enablers.
Secrecy jurisdictions are a core part of the problem of grand corruption, write the Tax Justice Network's Miroslav Palanský and Moran Harari. High secrecy scores provide an ideal environment for corruption to flourish, but by showing where these opportunities exist, the organisation's Financial Secrecy Index can help policymakers and practitioners to cut off the escape routes used by criminals and their enablers.
What the Financial Secrecy Index tells us about corruption today
Corruption news
Illicit financial flows again in the spotlight
Corruption news
The G20 Development Working Group has released a document outlining its call to action for countries to adopt a new set of voluntary and non-binding high-level principles for combating illicit financial flows. The group urges countries to intensify their efforts to clamp down on illicit flows through a multi-faceted approach which includes strengthening financial regulatory systems and revenue management, leveraging technology, and adopting and effectively implementing anti-corruption measures – among others.
The G20 Development Working Group has released a document outlining its call to action for countries to adopt a new set of voluntary and non-binding high-level principles for combating illicit financial flows. The group urges countries to intensify their efforts to clamp down on illicit flows through a multi-faceted approach which includes strengthening financial regulatory systems and revenue management, leveraging technology, and adopting and effectively implementing anti-corruption measures – among others.
As citizens, our responsibility is to expose both public and private sector corruption, writes Good Governance Africa CEO Lonwabo Kulati - first by not participating in them and second, by reporting them. Until we have a leadership that will decisively remove the corrupt from our society (and is not itself complicit), he adds, "our country is doomed".
As citizens, our responsibility is to expose both public and private sector corruption, writes Good Governance Africa CEO Lonwabo Kulati - first by not participating in them and second, by reporting them. Until we have a leadership that will decisively remove the corrupt from our society (and is not itself complicit), he adds, "our country is doomed".
Corrupt public and private sector collaborators are taking us all down
Opinion
Corruption Watch, in collaboration with Social Change Assistance Trust or SCAT, and Transparency International, and co-funded by the European Union, has embarked on the Strengthening Action Against Corruption (SAAC) project which focuses specifically on empowering and educating community advice offices/civil society organisations in the Eastern Cape province. Follow our activities here.
Strengthening Action Against Corruption
The SAAC Project
Veza (a colloquial term for ‘reveal’ or ‘expose’) allows you to: · Report incidents of police corruption and police misconduct, · Access information on your rights when you encounter the police, · Access information on SA's 1 150 police stations, such as locations, resources, budget and personnel, · Locate your nearest Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences (FCS) unit, · And much more.
By Matthew Jenkins and Yusuke Ishikawa, in collaboration with Transparency InternationalFirst published on U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre Today’s business environment is a lot tougher than it was 50 years ago. Competition for an ever-dwindling number of customers who can afford certain goods and services is fierce. Regulatory and compliance requirements can be onerous, while just Read more >
By Lonwabo Patrick Kulati First published on Daily Maverick Whenever I think of the rampant plundering of South Africa’s public resources, a childhood story comes to mind. When I grew up in Port Alfred, there was a Reverend Maguma who had a shop. On evenings and weekends, his sons manned the shop because he was Read more >
By Miroslav Palanský and Moran Harari First published on the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre blog Corruption happens in two main stages. The first is the actual act of receiving something of value: a monetary bribe passed under a table, a public procurement contract awarded to a classmate from high school, a law quietly rewritten to Read more >
Parliament’s portfolio committee on women, youth and persons with disabilities plans to start a new process of appointing commissioners to lead the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) in September. This follows a Constitutional Court ruling earlier this month that found the previous appointment process of five commissioners, undertaken in 2022, invalid as it offered inadequate Read more >
Today Corruption Watch (CW) was in the Constitutional Court to receive the judgment in its application challenging the National Assembly (NA)’s compliance with constitutionally mandated public participation processes in the appointment of five commissioners to the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE). One of the cornerstones of South Africa’s constitutional democracy is the provision for members Read more >
