The African Anti-Corruption Day, held annually on 11 July, takes place in 2025 under the theme of Promoting Human Dignity in the Fight Against Corruption. Because human dignity is an inherent right which is eroded by corruption, it must be both the foundation and the goal of anti-corruption efforts.
Are you a muso? Do you hate corruption and injustice? Here’s your chance to combine your passions with the Ngeke! Festival. The Enhancing Accountability Technical Assistance Facility, in partnership with Fair Play and Corruption Watch, and with support from the European Union Delegation to South Africa, brings you the Ngeke! Festival showcasing young voices against injustice and corruption. This is more than art and culture. This is a call to action! It’s time to say Ngeke!
Cogta minister Velenkosini Hlabisa has extended the deadline for submissions on the White Paper on Local Government review from 30 June to 31 July 2025. “This decision follows heightened interest from stakeholders across the country and numerous requests for additional time to prepare and submit inputs,” said the department in a statement.
The Compromiso de Sevilla, the outcome document of the fourth international conference on Financing for Development, currently under way in Sevilla, Spain, contains numerous provisions for enhanced transparency and anti-corruption measures. These include making anti-corruption a cross-cutting priority, fully leveraging the UN Convention Against Corruption, improving the transparency and use of data, recovering stolen assets, and working closely with civil society.
Corruption Watch’s track record of pushing for transparent, fair, and merit-based leadership appointments to Chapter 9 and other democracy-supporting institutions goes back to 2016. Last week we asked the Office of the Chief Justice to provide CVs of the currently shortlisted candidates for commissioner of the Independent Electoral Commission, which it had omitted to do. As a direct result of our letter, the OCJ made the CVs available and allowed us to share them, in the interest of transparency, with individuals and other organisations who would be interested in making a submission.
In the second edition of the Global Data Barometer, published in June 2025, 43 African, Latin American, and Caribbean countries are under the spotlight, The report examines their infrastructure, processes, and strategies needed to ensure that data serves the public good, providing a detailed view of governance, data availability, and ecosystem capabilities that underscore data’s role in society. In the Africa region, public procurement has emerged as a “standout area of progress”.
On 25 June Cabinet received the latest progress report on the government response to the recommendations of the Zondo commission. These range from CIPC reviews of implicated private sector entities and resultant investigations, to a welcome update on the value of recovered state capture-linked assets.
The SAI20 2025 summit is under way in Johannesburg, bringing together the supreme audit institutions (SAIs) from G20 countries. South Africa’s auditor-general Tsakani Maluleke opened the event on Tuesday morning, 24 June, saying that SAIs have a significant role to play in ensuring that public sector auditors all over the world can do their work unhindered, and that public resources are strategically harnessed for the purpose of improving citizens’ lives.
The seventh Annual Regional Binding Treaty Indaba recently concluded in Johannesburg, bringing together mining-affected communities, civil society groups, African state representatives, academics, and national human rights institutions. The focus of the event was the need for a binding international treaty that sets human rights standards, provides robust remedial mechanisms, and ends corporate impunity, especially in the extractives sector.