President Cyril Ramaphosa has gazetted the upcoming Madlanga inquiry into law enforcement corruption. The gazette also includes the terms of reference which lay out the scope of the inquiry, and other regulations which guide its work. Acting Deputy Chief Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga will preside as chairperson, with Advocate Sesi Baloyi SC and Advocate Sandile Khumalo assisting.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has gazetted the upcoming Madlanga inquiry into law enforcement corruption. The gazette also includes the terms of reference which lay out the scope of the inquiry, and other regulations which guide its work. Acting Deputy Chief Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga will preside as chairperson, with Advocate Sesi Baloyi SC and Advocate Sandile Khumalo assisting.
Madlanga commission terms of reference gazetted
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With local government elections coming up next year, it is not too early to start thinking about voting-related matters. The recent symposium on political funding in South Africa, hosted in Durban by the Independent Electoral Commission, brought together key stakeholders to assess progress in the four years since the promulgation of the Political Party Funding Act – now known as the Political Funding Act – which came into force on 1 April 2021.
With local government elections coming up next year, it is not too early to start thinking about voting-related matters. The recent symposium on political funding in South Africa, hosted in Durban by the Independent Electoral Commission, brought together key stakeholders to assess progress in the four years since the promulgation of the Political Party Funding Act – now known as the Political Funding Act – which came into force on 1 April 2021.
SA public largely indifferent to the party funding act, distrustful of politics
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South Africans are sick to death of persistent corruption by politicians
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It seems that criminal elements are firmly embedded in our political systems in a way that compromises our leaders and disempowers them from acting, writes Good Governance Africa CEO Lonwabo Kulati for Daily Maverick. It is a total failure to deal with corruption, year after year, he adds, and South Africans are sick of it.
It seems that criminal elements are firmly embedded in our political systems in a way that compromises our leaders and disempowers them from acting, writes Good Governance Africa CEO Lonwabo Kulati for Daily Maverick. It is a total failure to deal with corruption, year after year, he adds, and South Africans are sick of it.
Corruption Watch strongly condemns the recent threats, physical violence, and verbal attacks on human rights defenders Abahlali baseMjondolo, the Socio-Economic Rights Institute, and the South African Human Rights Commission by anti-immigrant organisation Operation Dudula and its allied groups. Denying immigrants their constitutional rights to healthcare is not the answer to the situation of poor service delivery in the public health system.
Corruption Watch strongly condemns the recent threats, physical violence, and verbal attacks on human rights defenders Abahlali baseMjondolo, the Socio-Economic Rights Institute, and the South African Human Rights Commission by anti-immigrant organisation Operation Dudula and its allied groups. Denying immigrants their constitutional rights to healthcare is not the answer to the situation of poor service delivery in the public health system.
Corruption Watch condemns threats and attacks on Abahlali and SERI
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President Cyril Ramaphosa has gazetted, in number No. 53048 of 23 July 2025, the upcoming Madlanga inquiry into law enforcement corruption. The gazette also includes the terms of reference which lay out the scope of the inquiry, and other regulations which guide its work. Ramaphosa established the “Judicial Commission of Inquiry into criminality, political interference, Read more >
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 >
