By Melusi NcalaFirst published on Daily Maverick If South Africa wants to meaningfully and effectively combat corruption, it must abandon its stance of selective condemnation. We see it every day, especially when a political opponent is accused: due process becomes an afterthought, and the allegation alone is treated as a conviction, without a single minute Read more >
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Corruption Watch (CW) welcomes the Constitutional Court’s decision, handed down today, to order Parliament to conduct impeachment proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa in connection with the Phala Phala scandal of 2020. The proceedings will be held under Section 89 of the Constitution, which deals with the impeachment of the president by the National Assembly, and Read more >
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The South African government’s extensive, but sometimes redundant use of management consultants to help drive its strategic goals once again came under the spotlight recently with the online launch of The Consultants, a report by civil society group Open Secrets. Authored by Zen Mathe, Luvano Ntuli, and Mamello Mosiana, the report looks into the dubious Read more >
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In this open letter addressed to President Cyril Ramaphosa, Presidency director-general Mondli Gungubele, and justice and correctional services minister Ronald Lamola, a group of civil society organisations and concerned individuals have asked the president to suspend the board of the embattled Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA), including its scandal-implicated chairperson Hlengani Mathebula. Mathebula arrived Read more >
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By Richard MessickFirst posted on the Global Anticorruption Blog In a 12 September guest post on the Global Anticorruption Blog, Nicole Fritz of South Africa’s Helen Suzman Foundation recounted Boston consulting guru Bain and Company’s role in the massive corruption that infected her country during the reign of its now deposed president Jacob Zuma. In Read more >
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International consultancy firm Bain & Company has been banned from doing business with the UK government for three years, owing to its part in state capture in South Africa between 2015 and 2018. The ban will apply retrospectively from January this year. In evidence heard by the state capture commission last year, Bain’s former South Africa Read more >
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Acting Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, who also chairs the state capture commission, wants future commissioners of the South African Revenue Service (Sars) to be appointed in an open, public process. The first of three editions of the state capture commission’s report – released to the public two weeks ago – has found that Sars was Read more >
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By Prinesha NaidooFirst published on Bloomberg Global consultancy Bain & Co. and Nedbank Group Ltd., South Africa’s fifth-largest lender, denied wilfully facilitating or being party to corruption after a judicial inquiry found their conduct wanting in their dealings with state-owned firms. A panel, headed by Acting Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, concluded in the first of Read more >
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In his latest address to the nation on Thursday, 23 July, President Cyril Ramaphosa uttered strong words of warning to those complicit in corrupt actions at this time – especially regarding the financial and other assistance given by the government to needy South African residents. This is the sternest – and the longest – speech Read more >