OPINIONSFrom crisis to action: We must act ruthlessly against corruption 09 Apr 2021, 9:30 By Mavuso MsimangFirst published on News24 “Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”Arundhati Roy The past year, 2020, will go down in history as one of monumental shifts and changes in how we live our lives. It was a time when the Read more >
PRESS RELEASES CW annual report: average 11 whistle-blower reports a day in 2020 25 Mar 2021, 9:34 The Corruption Watch (CW) 2020 annual report, titled From Crisis to Action, reflects the extent to which all organisations and individuals in South Africa witnessed and experienced the massive impact of the global coronavirus pandemic. During this period the public was increasingly outraged by the rampant corruption that emerged in relation to procurement and distribution Read more >
PRESS RELEASES MEDIA ADVISORY: CW to launch 2020 annual corruption report 19 Mar 2021, 15:28 Corruption Watch will release its ninth annual corruption report, titled From Crisis to Action, on Thursday, 25 March at 10h00. The report provides an overview of the organisation’s anti-corruption efforts in 2020, a year that was marred by the Covid-19 pandemic, a defining global health crisis that also exposed how deeply the culture of corruption 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 >
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 >
OPINIONS Fighting Covid-19 also requires intensifying anti-corruption efforts 20 Jul 2020, 16:30 By Caroline James and Karam Jeet SinghFirst published on News24 Corruption Watch, along with the nation, anxiously sees the number of Covid-19 cases rising while the number of available hospital beds fall. The public health system is under extreme strain but significant resources have been put aside to address the crisis. In this national state Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS Price-gouging Dis-Chem made to pay million rand fine 09 Jul 2020, 9:30 By Thato Mahlangu Pharmaceutical retailer Dis-Chem has been found guilty by the Competition Tribunal for opportunistically hiking prices for some of its products. The tribunal asked Dis-Chem to pay R1.2-million in administrative penalties for having increased prices of face masks which have been classified as essential products during the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. But Read more >