CORRUPTION NEWS‘They eat money’: corruption feeds Mandela’s political heirs 17 Apr 2018, 9:32By Norimitsu Onishi and Selam Gebrekidan First published in the New York Times With loudspeakers blaring, city officials drove across the black township’s dirt roads in a pickup truck, summoning residents to the town hall in Vrede, Free State province. The main guest was a local figure who had soared up the ranks of the Read more >
PRESS RELEASES CW calls for removal of Adv Mkhwebane from office 06 Mar 2018, 16:15Despite increasing questions from the public about the ability of Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane to fulfill her role as an independent public protector, Corruption Watch has been prepared to give her the opportunity to settle into a difficult position, and show her willingness to stand up to political pressure under the Zuma administration. However, after a Read more >
PRESS RELEASES CW welcomes Hawks’ arrest of Vrede scandal suspects 14 Feb 2018, 14:26Corruption Watch applauds the Hawks’ morning raid on the Gupta compound, and the subsequent arrests in relation to the Vrede dairy farm investigations, including that of Ajay Gupta. Also arrested was Free State’s agriculture department head, Peter Thabethe. The organisation has repeatedly called for those implicated in multiple corruption scandals to be held accountable and Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS PP’s Vrede dairy farm report dubbed ‘whitewash’ 14 Feb 2018, 10:18By Kwazi Dlamini On Friday 9 February the Office of the Public Protector unexpectedly released the much anticipated report on the Vrede dairy farm. The report was anticipated not only because it implicated some senior ANC officials and the controversial Gupta family, but also because citizens have been waiting for the report for three years. Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS State capture report calls for commission of inquiry 03 Nov 2016, 7:36The long-awaited state capture report was released yesterday, and one of the outcomes was the instruction by former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela that President Jacob Zuma must appoint a judicial commission of inquiry into state capture. However, Zuma is not to choose the commissioner – that task falls to South Africa’s chief justice. State of Read more >
