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CW calls for ceasefire in Gaza, end to arms industry complicity in conflict

06 Nov 2023, 17:11

Corruption Watch calls for ceasefire in Gaza, end to arms industry complicity in the conflict Corruption Watch joins the growing calls from around the world for an immediate ceasefire to Israel’s war on the Palestinian people in Gaza. Israel’s blanket violence against the people of Palestine, under the cloak of legitimate defence after the attack Read more >

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Move on from blaming apartheid, ANC govt, and take responsibility for failures

08 Sep 2023, 11:33

Image: Arrive Alive By Moepeng Valencia Talane – CW Voices It’s apartheid season once again in South African politics – that time when politicians of the ruling ANC resort to inelegantly weaving the legacy of the gruesome past regime into rhetoric when faced with the task of explaining their (failed) duty to the nation. In Read more >

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Celebrating decades of courageous women

09 Aug 2023, 11:57

Image: South African History Online By Moepeng Valencia Talane – CW Voices We as South Africans interpret and understand freedom in many ways. For some, it means gaining access to the means they require to make financial emancipation a reality for them and their future generations. For others, it means being able to exist, thrive Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

South Africa’s history of gold mining – corruption, abuse, and secrecy

25 Jan 2023, 12:57

In part two of our new two-part mini-series on gold laundering, we look back into South Africa’s gold mining history and the role which gold laundering played in financing the apartheid government’s attempts to cling to power. Part one set the scene as it is today, and looked at possible measures to address the growing Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Corruption – we have to acknowledge its centuries-old existence

08 Jan 2021, 10:47

By Janine Erasmus Nepotism, patronage, irregular contracts, rent-seeking. Many people today erroneously associate these corrupt activities only with the current government and yet, corruption in South Africa existed long before 1994. It is fair to say that those who openly yearn for pre-ANC, pre-corruption days are yearning for something that never existed. As UJ political Read more >

PRESS RELEASES

Set the Apartheid Secrets Free!

03 Mar 2020, 12:20

We, the undersigned organisations and individuals committed to justice for historical crimes and social justice in South Africa write in support of the South African History Archive. On Tuesday, 03 March 2020 it faces the next round in an epic battle against the South African Reserve Bank in the Bloemfontein Supreme Court of Appeal. This Read more >

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Mining takes heavy toll on SA’s black families

22 Nov 2019, 8:00

• A cemetery in Phola, a black residential area near Witbank, from which some graves were relocated to make way for coal mining. Image: Supplied South Africa’s mining sector has been in a state of upheaval for some years – not least because of the controversy surrounding the disbursement and use of mining royalties, those Read more >

OPINIONS

Understanding the psychology of corruption in SA

30 Jul 2019, 10:06

By Tove van LennepFirst published on Daily Maverick The idea that corrupt public servants are morally deficient obscures the fact that morality is frequently invoked to legitimise corruption itself. South African public servants usually accept that their corrupt acts are illegal, but stress that they are also moral; performed in the name of some social Read more >

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Tribunal: enough evidence to warrant further investigation

20 Sep 2018, 15:23

Today the People’s Tribunal on Economic Crime delivered its final findings to the public during an event at Johannesburg’s Constitution Hill. The tribunal sat earlier this year with the intention of focusing on three periods in South Africa’s history – the apartheid years, the 1999 arms deal, and state capture. Once the interim report was Read more >