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 >
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Corruption Watch notes with great concern the repeated attacks on the Office of the Public Protector, the latest incident involving comments made by the Justice Portfolio Committee in Parliament last week. The attacks reflect a pattern of disrespect and contempt for a vital institution in South Africa’s constitutional democracy. Under the leadership of Advocate Read more >
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Corruption Watch will participate in a global campaign, “Unmask the Corrupt", launched on 19 June by Transparency International (TI). The campaign’s overarching objective is to end the impunity enjoyed by perpetrators of corruption. The specific campaign demands will make it easier to trace the proceeds of corruption and to prevent the perpetrators from enjoying the Read more >
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A Corruption Watch survey conducted via Mxit and online reveals that youth identify corruption as one of the limiting factors that negatively affect their employment opportunities and access to basic services. Out of over 6 000 respondents between the ages of 14 and 34 who participated in the survey, seven in 10 admitted to having Read more >
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Corruption Watch has written to the Mpumalanga Department of Education calling for an urgent probe into the irregular tender awarded by the department to a number of private companies, for the management and supply of bulk foodstuffs to schools in the province. “Our public finance management laws require state departments to investigate any allegations of Read more >
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A senior public official at the Gauteng Department of Infrastructure Development (GDID), managing the Roodeplaat Dam Nature Reserve, north of Pretoria, was suspended after a Corruption Watch investigation found she was using government land to run a private resort without authorisation. The investigation follows an anonymous tip-off sent to Corruption Watch, alerting the organisation to Read more >
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Corruption Watch is prepared to take further action based on the Constitutional Court’s findings that declared illegal and invalid the award of a R10-billion contract by the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) to Cash Paymaster Services (CPS). Welcoming the Constitutional Court’s judgment, Corruption Watch executive director David Lewis said he was pleased that the Read more >
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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 >
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19 March 2014 President’s failure to protect public resources has damaged government’s credibility The Public Protector’s findings on Nkandla have severely damaged the credibility of the government and key custodians of public resources. Even though Advocate Thuli Madonsela’s report exonerates President Jacob Zuma from having deliberately misled Parliament regarding the upgrade to his private residence, Read more >