PRESS RELEASESCoalition supports strike against corruption and poverty 05 Oct 2020, 11:00 04 October 2020 Issued by the C19 People’s Coalition. The C-19 People’s Coalition unreservedly supports the spirit and the demands of the national strike of 7 October. The reasons are indisputable. South Africa, even before the Covid-19 crisis, was already becoming poorer. A quarter of our people suffered from extreme poverty. Government presided over one Read more >
RAISING AWARENESS CW report shows whistle-blower increase during Covid-19 22 Sep 2020, 10:02 The 2020 edition of Corruption Watch’s Analysis of Corruption Trends (ACT) report, released today, demonstrates growing concerns about corruption levels in South Africa. The report also illustrates that the will of the public to expose the corrupt and seek consequences remains strong even during the pandemic. Almost 2 000 people took the step of blowing Read more >
PRESS RELEASES Corruption Watch to release its half-yearly corruption report 18 Sep 2020, 16:00 On Tuesday 22 September, Corruption Watch will release its 2020 Analysis of Corruption Trends (ACT) report. This fourth edition of the half-yearly publication provides a snapshot of what the public has identified as areas of concern in the fight against corruption in South Africa. It sheds light on the forms and types of corruption reported Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS Chains of corruption: a poem reflecting on SA youth’s struggle 15 Sep 2020, 12:30 By Thato Mahlangu This reminds me of slaveryWe work for the corrupt onesThey claim everything to their nameAs if they have worked for all this they are stealingThey make us poorer each dayMothers don’t know what they will feed their childrenIt is darkColdWe are poorYet they continue stealing from usWe worked hard, saving the last Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS Covid-19 corruption pushes govt out of lethargy 08 Sep 2020, 14:40 By Janine ErasmusFirst published on Transparency International Along with other ordinary South Africans, we at Corruption Watch have followed with increasing dismay the growing number of reports of corruption related to the Covid-19 pandemic. The perpetrators of this corruption have been unashamedly brazen in their hijacking of the emergency measures put into place to deal Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS Covid tender transparency is a step in the right direction, but more is needed 28 Aug 2020, 11:15 The announcement that all Covid-19 tender contracts awarded under the state of disaster are now published and freely available is good news, but it must be followed by harsh punishment, including a new set of orange overalls, for those found guilty of corruption. The lists published by the Office of the Chief Procurement Officer include Read more >
LOCKDOWN LIFE All support to CW for all you’ve done for South Africa 14 Aug 2020, 11:00 Merle Payne Hi, I am answering the questionnaire about my Covid-19 experience. I live on my brother’s farm in Limpopo. I run a small embroidery workshop from the farm in my house. When the first lockdown was implemented, I told two of the three ladies at the workshop to go home to organise their lives Read more >
OPINIONS Transparent tenders will cut Covid-related corruption 04 Aug 2020, 8:30 By Caroline James and Karam Jeet SinghFirst published on Maverick Citizen President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on 23 July 2020 a variety of measures to deal with Covid-related corruption. Mere days later the media exposed that Madzikane II Thandisizwe Diko – the husband of presidential spokesperson Khusela Diko – had received contracts worth R125-million for Covid-19 Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS TI: two clear opportunities for a better post-Covid world 27 Jul 2020, 11:36 By Kwazi Dlamini The Covid-19 pandemic has turned the world as we know upside down. It has illuminated shortcomings, failures and inequality in societies all over the world and while there are nations who have handled the crisis supremely well, the same cannot be said for the majority. Transparency International (TI) has released a new Read more >
