national state of disaster Archives

Posts

CW gears up to accelerate justice in 2nd decade of fighting corruption

04 Apr 2023, 9:10

Corruption Watch (CW) today released its 11th annual corruption report, Accelerating justice, at a time in the country when access to justice is looking more and more remote for millions. The report comes out at one of the lowest points in South Africa’s democratic history, where the consequences of years of graft and corruption have Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Government response to KZN, EC floods was too slow, says AG

01 Sep 2022, 11:18

Image: Flickr/GovernmentZA Too slow. That is how Auditor-General (AG) Tsakani Maluleke described the government’s response to the deadly floods of April 2022 that hit KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape. Presenting the first of a series of reports that will be produced by the Auditor-General of South Africa (Agsa) around this particular use of public money, Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

AGSA outlines plan for real-time auditing of KZN and EC disaster relief funds

25 May 2022, 14:20

Auditor-General (AG) Tsakani Maluleke has briefed Parliament’s Standing Committee on the Auditor-General on steps her office would take to audit the disaster relief funds allocated to KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape. The committee had asked her to present the framework the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) would use to monitor the use of the relief Read more >

OPINIONS

From 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 >