CORRUPTION NEWSHolding SA police accountable: your rights while engaging with them 22 Jun 2021, 11:24 The police are supposed to protect the public from crime and violence, but they sometimes engage in unlawful behaviour such as corruption, brutality and torture. Holding police accountable for wrongdoing is essential. A comprehensive new factsheet has just been released, which helps people to understand police powers, their rights when they encounter police, and Read more >
POLICY AND ADVOCACY CW research reveals opacity, regulation breaches on govt tender portals 30 Mar 2021, 10:28 Corruption Watch, in partnership with Transparency International, is working on a project called Open Contracting for Health (OC4H), which aims to advocate for greater transparency in health procurement processes. The project developed from our engagements with other civil society organisations, when we became aware of a common frustration – efforts to monitor the implementation of Read more >
PRESS RELEASES CW innovates with Veza tool, empowers public to hold SAPS accountable 17 Feb 2021, 10:05 Corruption Watch (CW), in response to the many whistle-blower complaints it has received on police corruption, and inspired by its engagements with communities experiencing police violence and abuse, today launches an interactive open data tool – Veza (a colloquial term for ‘reveal’ or ‘expose’). The first of its kind in South Africa, Veza improves transparency in Read more >
PRESS RELEASES MEDIA INVITATION: CW to launch Veza, a tool to enhance Saps accountability 12 Feb 2021, 17:09 In 2018 Corruption Watch was one of four winners of the Google Impact Challenge, which tasked local innovators to solve a social problem using technology. Because the organisation, since its launch in 2012, has been inundated by various reports of police corruption, abuse of power, and maladministration, it developed the Veza Tool – an interactive Read more >
GOVERNANCE New report on reform strategies in open contracting 27 Nov 2020, 14:39 The Government Transparency Institute and Transparency International Health Initiative (TIHI) recently published a report focusing on open contracting in low- to middle-income countries (LMIC), with a specific focus on reform strategies for the procurement space. Public contracting is the world’s largest marketplace, with $13-trillion changing hands every year – but opacity and secrecy means that for Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS SA lags in using open data for anti-corruption 27 Mar 2017, 10:27 Transparency International (TI) recently launched its G20 Anti-Corruption Open Data Studies, which assesses how countries in that group are implementing the G20 anti-corruption open data principles. The main objectives of the study were to establish how much progress G20 governments have made in implementing open data as part of an anti-corruption regime; what are the Read more >
LITIGATION Court to supervise Sassa grants payments 17 Mar 2017, 11:14 The Constitutional Court today handed down a unanimous, blistering judgment in the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) matter. Judge Johan Froneman ruled that the court will take over supervision of the implementation of the current and future grants process, indicating that the bench had no trust in social development minister Bathabile Dlamini. “This judgment Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS How open are SA’s official statistics? 13 Jun 2016, 11:29 South Africa recently joined the likes of Burkina Faso, Kenya and Ghana in developing and launching an open data portal that makes published government data accessible for free to the public. The South African Data Portal is one of South Africa’s commitments in the Open Government Partnership, and is currently in a year-long pilot phase. Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS Open data is a key factor in fighting corruption 02 Jun 2015, 9:38 An open, democratic government system that gives its citizens access to information on its plans, its spending patterns and its services – it's the ideal that the world’s open data advocates work towards daily, for the nations that need it. Whether or not they will win the war against administrative secrecy remains to be seen, Read more >