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Should Culpable Whistleblowers Be Eligible for Rewards?

07 Mar 2023, 10:57

By Claire BeutterFirst published on the Global Anticorruption Blog John Doe is a whistle-blower who provided critical information to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding an international bribery scheme, assisting the agency in bringing a successful enforcement action. Doe timely filed an application for reward under a provision of federal law that directs the SEC Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Here’s the Sona you want to hear (but don’t hold your breath)

08 Feb 2023, 16:28

By Brij MaharajFirst published on Daily Maverick My Dear South Africans, Notwithstanding the predictions of one Malema (South Africa will have a new president by Christmas 2022), I remain your elected president (I must remind Honourable Malema to change his sangoma!) I greet you in the name of democracy, peace and justice. (You will notice Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

SA’s dysfunctional universities: the consequences of corrupt decisions

08 Feb 2023, 10:06

By Prof Jonathan JansenFirst published on The Conversation Africa What happens when those responsible for managing universities cannot trust each other to act with integrity? In a nutshell, as I discuss in my new book, Corrupted: A study of chronic dysfunction in South African universities, dysfunction is the consequence. This is the situation playing out Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Lamola: Whistle-blowers’ plight receiving attention

07 Feb 2023, 9:42

Justice minister Ronald Lamola has paid tribute to South Africa’s whistle-blowers. Speaking on 6 February at the hybrid conference on Countering the Corrupt – Reform of the Criminal Justice Administration in South Africa, Lamola said: “You are the true embodiment of the famous saying by British philosopher John Stuart Mill: ‘Bad men need nothing more Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Should SA criminalise “abuse of public power”? A brief discussion

01 Feb 2023, 12:51

By Natalie KeetsiFirst posted on the Global Anticorruption Blog South Africa has laws which criminalise various forms of corruption (bribery, embezzlement, and the like), yet officeholders have regularly exploited their positions of power for illicit gains. Part of the reason for this is that it often can be very difficult to prove the elements of Read more >

PRESS RELEASES

SA slides further down 2022 CPI as global anti-corruption flounders

31 Jan 2023, 6:30

The release today of global anti-corruption movement Transparency International’s (TI) 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) is a discouraging story, as South Africa slips one point in the rankings of the leading global index measuring perceptions of public sector corruption around the world. South Africa has barely shifted position on the CPI over the 11 years Read more >

OPINIONS

The disgraceful act of belittling and threatening corruption fighters

15 Dec 2022, 12:00

By Kwazi Dlamini Lack of accountability is not only a threat to our constitutional democracy, but also to Chapter 9 institutions who are tasked with upholding and strengthening that democracy. A threat to these institutions means that they cannot fulfil their mandate to their full capacity and uphold the rule of law. The recent threats Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

A discussion on accountability – what is it, who seeks it, who gives it?

14 Dec 2022, 14:47

Accountability is one of the country’s favourite words at the moment, particularly in relation to the current fast-changing political climate and in the wake of the years of state capture. But accountability means different things to different people, in different contexts. It can be a highly contested concept – so who decides on what counts Read more >

OPINIONS

Ramaphosa must ensure political accountability to win corruption fight

14 Dec 2022, 14:12

By Moepeng Valencia Talane South Africa has a serious corruption problem, and everyone including the morally compromised ANC agrees, but what we’re not agreeing on is the extent to which the absence of a culture of political accountability will keep corruption in place without tangible solutions. That is, if nothing is done by those with Read more >