HEROES & ZEROES

Our new crooked celebration

"Do you want to be a 'star' in South Africa? Do you want the media to follow you everywhere you go and to record every word you utter? Do you want your picture to adorn the front pages of newspapers, and your face and voice to get into every household in the country through television?" Read more >

DEAR CORRUPTION WATCH

Tender outcome: you have a right to know

Are you witnessing corruption but don’t know what to do about it? Ask the team of Corruption Watch experts what to do by writing to: letters@businesstimes.co.za and mark your letter 'Dear Corruption Watch'.   Dear Corruption Watch    I own my own company and recently lost a tender that we bid for. I suspect that Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Samwu in North West downs tools over corruption

More than 3 000 municipal workers marched against ongoing corruption in the Bojanala Region, Rustenburg, in North West today. News reports just in confirm that 50 people, who infiltrated the mass action, were arrested under the Regulation of Gatherings Act. “They were isolated and arrested when union leaders alerted the police that a group had Read more >

HEROES & ZEROES

Community action fights corruption in Ehlanzeni

Fed up with reckless state spending, tender fraud and rampant bribery, a community near Nelspruit, Mpumalanga, is showing what group action and proactivity can do to fight corruption. This community is our hero of the week. An anti-corruption strategy was thrashed out at Kruger Lowveld Chamber of Business and Tourism (KLCBT) workshop this week, the Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Corruption in driving schools: take a stand

Mummy Mangoale approached Boiteko Driving Institute in Pretoria in August 2011, asking about the cost of driving lessons. She met Calvin Theledi, who told her that it would cost her R4 500 to get a Code 8 driving licence. Eager to get started with her lessons, Mangoale arranged to pay the fee in two separate instalments Read more >

DEAR CORRUPTION WATCH

How do I blow the whistle?

  Are you witnessing corruption but don’t know what to do about it? Ask the team of Corruption Watch experts what to do by writing to: letters@businesstimes.co.za and mark your letter 'Dear Corruption Watch'.   Dear Corruption Watch   There are some dodgy dealings going on in the municipality where I live. The Special Investigations Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Metro cops corruption shocker

By Anna Cox, first published in The Star   It’s official – corruption is rampant and widespread among Joburg Metro Police Department officers, with over 50 percent having asked for bribes and one in four motorists being targeted. And until senior management, City of Joburg officials and politicians acknowledge the extent of the corruption, there Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Rethinking procurement to fight corruption

To combat corruption, the government and private industry have to change their models of supply change management, according to procurement experts. They were in Johannesburg on 4 October to inaugurate the government’s recognition of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS). Procurement, the buying of a good or service, is a contentious issue in Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

National Key Points Act laid bare

By now it is well known that the Department of Public Works has invoked the apartheid-era National Key Points Act in an attempt to frustrate a probe into the budgeted R203-million upgrade to President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla homestead, the Right2Know coalition reports. “It is the latest in a long history of strategic abuse of this Read more >