DEAR CORRUPTION WATCH

What’s at the core of the nuclear puzzle?

Dear Corruption Watch, I am confused. I thought that procuring a nuclear power plant required a public tender process, but then the Russian company selling us the goods issues a press release saying it's a done deal? What exactly is the deal? And is it possible or desirable to undertake a procurement exercise on this Read more >

HEROES & ZEROES

SABC misspends billions, named zero again

Parliament’s portfolio committees have their fair share of drama when calling to account government departments and entities on their performance. When the SABC appeared before the communications portfolio committee this week, it wasn’t just the public broadcaster’s whopping R3.3-billion in irregular expenditure, but also the reason for this financial fiasco that boggled their minds. Thus Read more >

PRESS RELEASES

South Africa lags behind in enforcing international anti-corruption commitments

South Africa has once again failed to make any progress in enforcing key international commitments that are aimed at curbing the global export of corruption and making foreign bribery a crime, Corruption Watch reported today. In its latest progress report, Exporting Corruption, on enforcement of the OECD’s Anti-Bribery Convention (adopted in 1997), Transparency International announced Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

SA failing to implement OECD convention

Transparency International (TI) today published its annual progress report, titled Exporting Corruption, on the implementation of the OECD anti-bribery convention. Its revelations are thought-provoking, and in South Africa's case, unflattering. In March this year we wrote about the country’s tardiness in prosecuting foreign bribery under the anti-bribery convention of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Nene targets waste and corruption

Finance minister Nhlanhla Nene has tabled his first medium-term budget. Speaking in Parliament yesterday, Nene showed that he was not afraid to make some tough decisions. Analysts have shown approval for his forthright stance on the country’s overspending and poor economic growth. “When we tabled the 2014 budget in February, we expected the economy to Read more >

FROM OUR CAMPAIGNS

VICTORY FOR OUR NO MORE TJO-TJO CAMPAIGN!

Welcome to the No more tjo-tjo campaign section. Here you will be able to follow developments since its launch in April 2012, read more about what the public has reported to us and access nifty stuff – like our know your rights card and funky infographics.   Timeline of events It’s been six eventful months Read more >

HEROES & ZEROES

Fighting corruption with technology

Corruption Watch has once again entered the Global Innovation Competition (GIC), and we need your support, because the public voting round has opened! South Africa is one of the 12 key countries taking part in the 2015 competition, organised by Johannesburg-based Making All Voices Count – the others are Bangladesh, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Liberia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Whistle-blowers in the hot seat at inquiry

By Anine Kriegler and Murray Hunter The arms companies have successfully avoided scrutiny at the Seriti Commission, essentially putting the whistle-blowers and critics on trial. The absence of the arms companies from the Seriti Commission is telling. The commission’s first phase was focused on the arms deal’s rationale – why the South African government bought Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

First Nene budget due today

Last year this time then-minister of finance Pravin Gordhan impressed the nation when he delivered his medium term budget policy statement (MTBPS). Gordhan announced, among other developments, that severe austerity measures were to be put in place to cut down on wild spending. Today his successor Nhlanhla Nene presents his first medium-term budget, also known Read more >