From Amnesty International, CIVICUS and Transparency International 13 October 2020 Dear G20 finance ministers, As you meet this week, we are writing to you to encourage you to take concrete actions in order to build a better future through a just recovery by investing in people and ensuring that funds being made available reach those Read more >
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CORRUPTION NEWS
In 2018 Transparency International released a further edition of its Exporting Corruption survey, a progress report which rates countries based on their enforcement against foreign bribery under the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention. The OECD convention requires signatory countries to criminalise bribery of foreign public officials and introduce related measures. That report highlighted South Africa’s failure to Read more >
PRESS RELEASES
There has been limited if any progress in South Africa’s attempts to curb foreign bribery over the past two years. This suggests that it remains relatively easy for South African companies to engage in corruption when conducting business outside the country’s borders, notes Corruption Watch. According to Exporting Corruption 2020: Assessing Enforcement of the OECD Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS
Corruption Watch (CW) has written to the minister of trade and industry, Ebrahim Patel, and the Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry on the upcoming appointments to the National Lotteries Commission (NLC). The NLC has been in the news frequently of late, for all the wrong reasons – opacity, nepotism, misuse of funds, corruption. Patel Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS
Former crime intelligence head Richard Mdluli may well go to jail for kidnapping, intimidation and assault – but his corruption case which was reinstated in 2015 has yet to see the inside of a courtroom. That will only happen in November. In the Johannesburg High Court on Tuesday morning, Judge Ratha Mokgoatlheng handed down a Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS
By Cherese ThakurFirst published on amaBhungane Corruption costs lives. This simple truth has been grimly illustrated over the past months of national disaster, where front-line workers have had to brave conditions with insufficient or poor quality personal protective equipment (PPE). Many of these workers have contracted the virus, and some have died. In monetary terms, Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS
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
1 September 2020 Dear President Ramaphosa and Minister Mboweni, We write to you as civil society organisations deeply concerned at the high levels of corruption being committed through our public procurement system. We call on you to take advantage of the current opportunities and show decisive leadership to steer a collaborative process as the draft Read more >
OPINIONS
By Matthew StephensonFirst published on Global Anticorrutpion blog I’m taking another one of my periodic breaks from semi-serious commentary to make a mostly frivolous, slightly snarky point about the way we talk and write about corruption. Here’s my plea for today: Every sensible person would presumably agree that there’s no panacea (that is, no single Read more >