Corruption Watch (CW) has been exposing weaknesses and corruption in South Africa’s farm worker equity scheme system for years, through its participation in Transparency International’s Land and Corruption in Africa project which tackles land corruption risks and injustices in sub-Saharan Africa. The organisation completed phase one of the project between 2015 and 2019, and wound Read more >
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Image: supplied By Liezl HumanFirst published on GroundUp Civil society organisations demanded answers on Wednesday from Parliament over what they claim has been a failed government project to uplift the lives of farm workers across the country. “These farm workers became symbols of transformation while others cashed in on their name. It’s a betrayal of Read more >
PRESS RELEASES
The failure of farm worker equity schemes (FWES) in South Africa comes under the spotlight in Parliament this week, as a group of civil society partners makes representations in this regard to the Portfolio Committee on Land Reform and Rural Development on 12 November 2025. The Legal Resources Centre (LRC), Support Centre for Land Change Read more >
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Image: Centre for Environmental Rights By Ezile MadlalaFirst published on African Law Matters On 28 and 29 May 2025, the Centre for Applied Legal Studies, Lawyers for Human Rights, and the Alternative Information & Development Centre co-hosted the seventh Annual Regional Binding Treaty Indaba in Johannesburg. The event brought together mining-affected communities, civil society groups, Read more >
PRESS RELEASES
Corruption Watch (CW) on Friday 16 May 2025 sent a letter of complaint to the Public Protector on the failure of Farm Worker Equity Schemes (FWES) and their effective implementation. FWES are a government initiative intended to economically empower farm workers by giving them equity in existing farming enterprises and incorporating them into agribusinesses as Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS
By Refilwe Chulu Corporations have increasingly become a threat to human rights over the years. There are several reasons for this, such as corporate goals and targets, which can mean that human rights get overridden so that targets may be reached, harmful operational activities such as excessive use of water or damage to housing, or Read more >
OPINIONS
Image: Vuk’uzenzele By Melusi NcalaFirst published on News24 The South African government, under the African National Congress (ANC) rule, cares little about the plight of marginalised people – and the ANC-led government’s own abhorrent track record in upholding human rights tells the story. Besides its well-documented service delivery failures, the handling of the land question Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS
Image: Corruption Watch The fifth and final episode of our new podcast series series on land corruption, titled Land and Corruption: Story of the Marginalised, is now available. The series marks our work in the second phase of Transparency International’s (TI) Land and Corruption in Africa project, where our focus area was land in the Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS
Image: PixHere Corruption Watch (CW) is the South Africa lead for the Land and Corruption in Africa phase 2 (LCA2) project, driven by Transparency International (TI), and is part of an eight-chapter team – with Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe – that successfully completed the first phase from 2014 to 2019. Overall, Read more >