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About the SAAC project

SAAC HOME AND LATEST NEWSABOUT THE SAAC PROJECTSAAC INFORMATION AND RESOURCES ABOUT THE SAAC Project On this page you’ll find all you need to know about the background and establishment of the SAAC Project. To see other pages in this mini-site, use the menu just below the main image on this page. Corruption Watch (CW), Read more >

SAAC Information and resources

SAAC HOME AND LATEST NEWSABOUT THE SAAC PROJECTSAAC INFORMATION AND RESOURCES RESOURCES AND INFORMATION ON THE SAAC Project On this page you’ll find research, reports and other documentation, photo galleries, and much more. To see other pages in this mini-site, use the menu just below the main image on this page. Anti-corruption Guide on Understanding Read more >

CW calls for urgent action against Tembisa Hospital corruption syndicates

Corruption Watch (CW), in response to the Special Investigating Unit’s (SIU) interim investigation report on Tembisa Hospital released yesterday, 29 September 2025, joins the calls for decisive action against the syndicates and officials named in the stealing of over R2-billion of the hospital’s funds. The confirmation that three syndicates are involved in these brazen acts of Read more >

She knew too much: why Babita Deokaran had to die

Image: Newsday Article first published on Newsday Whistle-blower Babita Deokaran, who worked in the Gauteng Department of Health, sent a chilling message to her boss: “Our lives could be in danger.” Twelve days later, she was dead. Award-winning News24 journalist Jeff Wicks has devoted years to unravelling the dark web of who ordered her murder Read more >

Justice for Fishrot victims once more delayed

By Richard MessickFirst posted on the Global Anticorruption Blog Thanks to a last-minute legal manoeuvrer, defendants in Namibia’s largest ever corruption case again escaped answering for their crimes. Set to start 5 August, their trial was postponed pending a ruling on a long-shot motion to invalidate all pre-trial rulings. While unlikely to succeed, the motion Read more >

South Africans are sick to death of persistent corruption by politicians

By Lonwabo Patrick KulatiFirst published on Daily Maverick Greg Mills, in his book Why States Recover, illustrates that the key reason behind economic failure is politics: “Today, the bulk of the world’s poor – totalling 1.1 billion of the planet’s seven billion people – live in failed or failing states,” he states. The continued failure Read more >