Entries by Corruption Watch

Victory for Abahlali and the Sheffield shack dwellers

3 August 2023 in , /by

KZN’s KwaDukuza Municipality will include over 300 households from the Sheffield informal settlement in a new housing project, as agreed in a recent court settlement, reports Tsoanelo Sefoloko for GroundUp. The agreement ends nearly five years of continuous evictions and court battles against the shack dwellers, who were supported by housing movement Abahlali BaseMjondolo, and represented in court by the Socio-economic Rights Institute of South Africa.

Who will be our next public protector? Here are the shortlisted candidates

31 July 2023 in , , , /by

South Africa’s new public protector is due to start their non-renewable seven-year term in just a few months. Currently the parliamentary committee tasked with nominating one individual for appointment is working with a shortlist of eight. Here are Corruption Watch’s findings of a desktop vetting process of the eight shortlisted candidates.

CW adds voice to UN report on women human rights defenders

24 July 2023 in , , , /by

Corruption Watch has contributed to the the next report of the Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders, which will be presented to the UN General Assembly in October 2023. Our submission focused on the risks that whistle-blowers, particularly women, face on a daily basis in South Africa. We noted that during and since the state capture era, intimidation of whistle-blowers has increased.

Physician, heal thyself before attempting to heal others of corruption

20 July 2023 in , , /by

In today’s gobalised settings, asks CW Voices’ Janine Erasmus, who are the real corrupt countries? Are they the mostly developing countries which have been ravaged by the East and West, or are they the developed countries that aid in the ravaging by knowingly providing channels for illegal financial flows – or are they both? In our new op-ed mini-series we look at the two sides of the corruption coin – the perpetrators, and the enablers.