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Citizens can play a role in Covid-19 vaccination transparency

15 Mar 2021, 14:54

Transparency International (TI) is encouraging citizens to get involved with their government’s Covid-19 vaccination regimes and systems. Any citizen has a right to know how their government’s decisions are made and taxpayer resources are spent. Especially when it comes to health issues, citizens are entitled to transparency regarding decisions and actions that are taken on Read more >

LEGISLATION AND SUBMISSIONS

Municipal elections to be a major test on two fronts

11 Mar 2021, 10:42

Two factors make the upcoming local government elections like no other we’ve experienced – the Covid-19 pandemic, and the imminent enforcement of the Political Party Funding Act, due to commence on 1 April 2021. The elections are scheduled to take place between 4 August and 1 November, and will be the sixth municipal election held Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

MPs grill Prasa board members and execs for inaction on pressing matters

08 Mar 2021, 10:11

Image: Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 By James StentFirst published on GroundUp Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) board members and executives, Department of Transport (DoT) officials, and Minister of Transport Fikile Mbalula were in for a grilling from Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) when they were called to account for Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Covid-19 vaccine procurement in SA entering murky waters

03 Mar 2021, 15:19

The hot topic of conversation in media, in homes around the country, and on millions of lips is the rollout of South Africa’s Covid-19 vaccination programme. Corruption Watch has been following the developments with interest and concern, and indeed has warned about a repeat of the widespread greed and corruption that emerged during the first Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Zuma corruption trial date finally set down for 17 May

25 Feb 2021, 10:54

Street art by Faith47 Jacob Zuma, a man who has been dodging corruption charges since the mid-2000s, will finally go on trial for those charges on 17 May. The Pietermaritzburg High Court ruled on 23 February that the corruption case against Zuma and his co-accused, French arms company Thales, will start in just under three Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Implementing and Enforcing the AUCPCC: a comparative review

15 Feb 2021, 14:39

Transparency International’s (TI) new report, titled Implementing and Enforcing the African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption: a Comparative Review, examines 10 African states in terms of the state of implementation of the AUCPCC. They are Côte d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Ghana, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa and Tunisia. Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Sona 2021: Ramaphosa introduces yet another anti-corruption body

12 Feb 2021, 9:46

Image: GovernmentZA / Flickr under CC BY-ND 2.0 By Kwazi Dlamini South Africans, by now unsurprised at the blatant disregard those in government have for the poor and the rule of law, even during a pandemic, heard more ambitious words last night when President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered the 2021 State of the Nation address (Sona). Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

World’s largest defence companies not doing enough to tackle corruption

09 Feb 2021, 9:57

Image: Wikimedia Commons under CC Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported Nearly three quarters of the world’s largest defence companies show little to no commitment to tackling corruption, new research from Transparency International reveals. The Defence Companies Index on Anti-Corruption and Corporate Transparency (DCI) is the only global index that measures the commitment to transparency and anti-corruption Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

SIU on the trail of govt officials abusing Covid-19 procurement

08 Feb 2021, 13:09

On Friday 5 February the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) released a report on its finalised investigations into ‘the procurement of, or contracting for, goods, works and services, including the construction, refurbishment, leasing, occupation and use of immovable property, during, or in respect of the National State of Disaster …’ The investigation was established in terms Read more >