HEROES & ZEROES

Taxpayers’ money wasted again

The South African Post Office (SAPO) is one of a number of state bodies that are under investigation by the Special Investigating Unit for maladministration and corruption – others include the national departments of labour, public works, and transport, and the State Information Technology Agency. News emerged during the week that SAPO suffered a financial Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Corruption in fishing permit-granting process?

Journalists for Transparency is a collective of journalists and storytellers that seeks to explore issues of transparency and corruption around the globe. Its first collection of investigative stories, titled Spoiled: Corruption from Farm to Table, has just been published in partnership with the International Anti-Corruption Conference. The team reported on corruption in the food production Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Seriti Commission not fair or consistent

By Lee-Ann Alfreds The withdrawal of arms deal critics Andrew Feinstein, Paul Holden and Hennie van Vuuren from the Arms Procurement Commission was not surprising in light of the unfair treatment meted out to detractors who have participated in proceedings. This was the unanimous verdict of civil society organisations and arms deal and constitutional experts Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Tlakula gives up the fight

It has taken a while, but embattled Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) chairperson Pansy Tlakula has resigned. “Her resignation opens the way for the Commission to begin closing a particularly challenging and tumultuous period in the Electoral Commission’s history and to move forward as an institution,” said the IEC in a statement. In March this year Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Spotlight on the public service in September

September is Public Service Month in South Africa. This year’s month-long event takes place under the theme Reinventing the way Public Servants Work: Batho Pele "Putting People First". During this period South Africans are asked to reflect on the public service and its ability to deliver quality services that meet their expectations in the spirit Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Commission not going to fulfil its mandate?

By Lee-Ann Alfreds THE Arms Procurement Commission is a “waste of taxpayers’ money”. Speaking on Friday 29 August, a day after he and fellow critics Paul Holden and Hennie van Vuuren announced they were withdrawing from the inquiry, Andrew Feinstein said while they had “really wanted this commission to work”, they had concluded they could Read more >

CAMPAIGNS

It is time to “Unmask the Corrupt” in South Africa

South Africa must make it much harder for the corrupt to hide their ill-gotten gains behind secret companies if the country wants to combat criminal activity in its financial system, Corruption Watch said today as it launched the "Unmask the Corrupt" campaign in South Africa. Transparency International national chapters in Australia, Brazil, France, Indonesia, Malaysia, Read more >

DEAR CORRUPTION WATCH

Stepping in where NPA fears to tread

Dear Corruption Watch The National Prosecuting Authority does not appear to have the appetite to prosecute cases involving corruption on the part of state officials, or committed by those in the private sector who are politically connected. Is it possible for a private citizen like me, or a civil society organisation like Corruption Watch, to Read more >

HEROES & ZEROES

Arms deal critics drop commission

Our heroes this week are Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) and their clients – arms deal critics Andrew Feinstein, Paul Holden and Hennie van Vuuren – who have withdrawn from the Seriti Commission of Inquiry into the R70-billion arms deal after doing their best to support it. The decision was not taken lightly, said LHR Read more >