PRESS RELEASESMEDIA 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 >
GOVERNANCE SA languishes in corruption index despite recent cleanup moves 01 Mar 2021, 12:03 By David Lewis and Janine ErasmusFirst published on Business Live Despite a number of positive developments during 2020 on the anti-corruption front, SA’s score on Transparency International’s corruption perceptions index remains static. There are several possible reasons for this, not least of which is the governing ANC’s apparent unwillingness or inability to tackle corruption in Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS Zuma corruption trial date finally set down for 17 May 25 Feb 2021, 10:54 Street art by Faith47 Jacob Zuma, a man who has been dodging corruption charges since the mid-2000s, will finally go on trial for those charges on 17 May. The Pietermaritzburg High Court ruled on 23 February that the corruption case against Zuma and his co-accused, French arms company Thales, will start in just under three Read more >
INVESTIGATION TERS corruption report: companies seize the chance to fleece employees 01 Feb 2021, 6:39 By Kwazi Dlamini As the nation settled in to a strict lockdown in March 2020, put in place to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, President Cyril Ramaphosa made a promise to the public; the promise was that government would help those severely affected by the lockdown, and it would protect the funds put Read more >
INVESTIGATION Employees let down by failed promise of TERS economic relief 01 Feb 2021, 6:37 The release of the Corruption Watch Covid-19 TERS Corruption at Work report today highlights the experiences of whistle-blowers short-changed by employers in delivering what was promised as temporary economic relief during Covid-19. The Temporary Employer / Employee Relief Scheme (TERS) was introduced during the national hard lockdown as one of a range of economic stimulus Read more >
PRESS RELEASES MEDIA ADVISORY: CW to launch new report on TERS corruption 29 Jan 2021, 9:18 Corruption Watch will release the report Covid-19 TERS Corruption at Work on Monday 1 February 2021 at 08h00. The report puts a spotlight on how corruption manifested in the Covid-19 Temporary Employer / Employee Relief Scheme (TERS), as reported by whistle-blowers who approached the organisation. Since the introduction of TERS in March 2020, R37.1-billion from Read more >
PRESS RELEASES 2020 CPI: corruption worsens Covid-19 response and recovery 28 Jan 2021, 7:04 Transparency International’s 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), released today, highlights how corruption has impacted the ability of countries around the world, including South Africa, to manage their health care responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. South Africa has barely shifted its position, coming in once again with a score of 44 and a rank of 69, Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS 2020 CPI a disappointing case of history repeating itself 28 Jan 2021, 7:04 Every year around this time, Transparency International (TI) releases its Corruption Perceptions Index – and every year we report on South Africa’s consistently lacklustre showing. In the previous CPI the country scored 44. In 2018 and 2017 it scored 43. Before that, South Africa managed 45 (2016), 44 (2015). 44 (2014), 42 (2013), and 43 Read more >
PRESS RELEASES MEDIA ADVISORY: 2020 CPI to be released on 28 January 2021 26 Jan 2021, 11:55 Perceptions of corruption in South Africa will be under the spotlight again on Thursday, 28 January 2021, when Transparency International, the leading civil society organisation tackling corruption worldwide, will release its annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). The 2020 edition of the CPI ranks 180 countries by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, drawing on Read more >