Corruption news Archives - Page 5 of 217

Strengthening Action Against Corruption: a project to enhance accountability in SA

13 Nov 2024, 10:44

Corruption Watch (CW), in collaboration with Social Change Assistance Trust (SCAT) and Transparency International (TI) and funded by the European Union, is committed to enhancing accountability in South Africa through the Strengthening Action Against Corruption (SAAC) Project. This initiative specifically targets community advice offices/civil society organisations (CSOs) in the Eastern Cape province, equipping them with Read more >

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SA and UK auditors-general talk about the importance of their institutions

12 Nov 2024, 10:46

The Good Governance Academy (not to be confused with Good Governance Africa) is a non-profit organisation that collaborates globally to share information on critical business issues as a public good, under the patronship of its founder, former Supreme Court judge Prof Mervyn King. The organisation is known primarily for promoting good governance in the corporate Read more >

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Newly launched Zondo tracker an asset for civil society

06 Nov 2024, 11:43

South Africans who wish to stay abreast of developments in the implementation of the state capture commission’s recommendations can now do so with the Zondo Recommendations Tracker, a tool that was launched on Tuesday by civil society organisation (CSO) Open Secrets. CSOs working under the banner of the Civil Society Working Group on State Capture Read more >

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Improving SA’s anti-corruption framework in the long and short term

05 Nov 2024, 12:18

To successfully tackle a problem and implement meaningful policy reform, there must be a clear understanding not only of the problem itself, but of the context in which that problem exists. For South Africa’s corruption problem, such understanding of the context is inadequate and little empirical information is available in this regard, and as a Read more >

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Why are the Hawks and NPA not acting on the gold and tobacco mafia?

31 Oct 2024, 17:33

The Hawks and NPA have had their heads stuck firmly in the sand for years now, since Sars initiated a series of search and seizure operations that unravelled Simon Rudland’s alleged gold and tobacco smuggling network. The reluctance by these entities to act is bad news for South Africa’s attempts to exit the FATF greylisting Read more >

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SIU municipal investigations find officials, service providers looting with abandon

24 Oct 2024, 13:24

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) again reported back to Parliament on its work, this time on 23 October to the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa). The focus was on investigations it conducted into the OR Tambo district municipality (Eastern Cape), the eThekwini metro (KwaZulu-Natal [KZN]), and the Ngaka Modiri Molema municipality (North West). With Read more >

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GNU first 100 days: where are we with cabinet performance agreements?

21 Oct 2024, 11:01

Image: Flickr/GovernmentZA The government of national unity (GNU) is firmly in place, receiving a mixed bag of public reviews as it recently marked its first 100 days. It has been three months since President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the executive management of government responsibilities would be split among several political parties that signed up to be Read more >

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Mining and tenure security legal framework is overdue for change

18 Oct 2024, 10:26

A new research report by Dr Aninka Claassens examines several pivotal South African court judgments that guide on the use and interpretation of the major laws governing mining and tenure security in the country, and the way they could and should be read together. Claassens was the founding director of the Land and Accountability Research Read more >

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SIU looks to recover R1-billion debt owed to it by state entities

17 Oct 2024, 12:41

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) hopes to recover more than R1-billion that other state institutions owe to it, through an initiative called Project Khokela. This project was started during the 2022/23 financial year, and the SIU hopes that speedy recovery of the outstanding funds will help to sustain its medium- to long-term operations and offset Read more >