The cost to taxpayers of the Nkandla security upgrades is one that has outraged many South Africans. Citizens continue to seek answers from the ANC and President Jacob Zuma on the issue and are eager to see what the consequences would be for those found guilty of allowing the misuse of public funds. This week, Read more >
PRESS RELEASES
The Corruption Watch Board calls on the President and Cabinet to assume collective responsibility for the misuse of public funds in the upgrade of President Jacob Zuma’s private home in Nkandla. The Board has welcomed the report by Public Protector, Thuli Mandonsela, which was released on 19 March 2014 with the title Secure in Comfort, Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS
By Valencia Talane South Africa’s Parliament is the instrument whereby laws and policies of the country are proposed and their merits and legality debated on, before being passed, shelved for later discussion or discarded within a multi-party representation. The country’s Constitution allows for members of the general public to make submissions on laws or processes Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS
By Valencia Talane “Parliament has become dysfunctional in that I don’t know who my MP is.” This is a quote attributed to social justice activist Zackie Achmat in People’s Power People’s Parliament a magazine distributed as part of a civil society conference held under the same title in 2012. The aim of the conference was Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS
By Valencia Talane How does Parliament serve you and me as ordinary citizens and why? How do members of Parliament come to sit in its houses? What is their purpose and who do they represent and why? With South Africa heading for its fifth elections since becoming a democracy, we answer these questions and more. Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS
By Lee-Ann Alfreds While contracts, national industrial participation programmes, defence industrial participation programmes, credits, multipliers, scores and offsets have had a lot of airing at the Arms Procurement Commission taking place in Pretoria, they are not the word that has been heard most frequently over the last eight months. That word is adjournment. For since Read more >
PUBLICATIONS
Corruption Watch has released a brand new e-book focused on whistleblowers. In the book we talk about what it means to be a whistleblower, who can be a whistleblower, how to do it, and what laws protect the whistleblower. We also share the real-life stories of whistleblowers who chose to not look the other way. Read more >
DEAR CORRUPTION WATCH
Dear Corruption Watch, Thank you for clarifying the rules on public funding for elections, but we would like to know why private funds collected by political parties are not transparently disclosed. This matter was litigated and the parties agreed to enact a law promoting the disclosure of private funding, but it has not happened. When Read more >
HEROES & ZEROES
People who blow the whistle on corruption do not often get the recognition they would have earned through their courageous efforts. Despite this, whistleblowers from all walks of life put their names forward to help claim back the dignity and credibility that would otherwise be lost to corruption within South Africa’s public service. Whistleblowers put Read more >