Glossary of corruption-related terms
Do you know your baksheesh from your bribery? Your cronyism from your collusion? Read our evolving glossary of terms relating to corruption to find out what they all mean.
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CORRUPTION GLOSSARY – F
FACILITATION PAYMENTS – these are bribes, also called facilitating, speed or grease payments. They’re made to secure or expedite the performance of a routine or necessary action to which the […]
CORRUPTION GLOSSARY – E
EMBEZZLEMENT – when a person holding office in an institution, organisation or company dishonestly and illegally appropriates, uses or traffics the funds and goods they have been entrusted with for […]
CORRUPTION GLOSSARY – D
DEBARMENT – a company is debarred by a government or multilateral agency when it is formally prohibited from tendering for projects that the government or agency is funding (or supporting […]
CORRUPTION GLOSSARY – C
CAPITAL FLIGHT – this is money that shifts out of a country, whether legally or illegally. Illegal capital flight is intended to disappear from any record in the country of […]
CORRUPTION GLOSSARY – B
BAKSHEESH [backsheesh, bakshis] – an Arabic term for a relatively small amount of money given to a beggar or for services rendered (as to a waiter): alms, tips, gratuity, pourboire. […]
CORRUPTION GLOSSARY – A
A LOOTA CONTINUA – variation of the phrase A luta continua – the struggle continues. The original was the rallying cry of the Frelimo movement in Mozambique’s civil war of […]
Tapping into community media is vital for both it and civil society
Community media is a vastly untapped resource, writes Corruption Watchs Phemelo Khaas. For civil society organisations especially, they are an effective and efficient way of reaching communities and spreading a desired message. However, the sector faces challenges which need urgent attention if it is to thrive.
Int’l Youth Day: SA youth faces grave challenges, but spirit of ’76 lives on
The hurdles that stand in the way of youth development could easily affect future generations, should President Cyril Ramaphosa fail to heed the call made on 16 June 2022 for immediate and decisive intervention. On that day, during the first civil society-led Youth Day Parade for Justice and Change, young people delivered a memorandum of grievances, which has neither been acknowledged nor responded to.