TI’s G20 chapters ask leaders for urgent anti-corruption action

Image: Flickr/G20 Brasil Ahead of the 2024 G20 Rio de Janeiro summit, where leaders will come together to discuss matters of critical import for countries around the world, Transparency International’s chapters in G20 countries have written an open letter to the delegates, urging them to walk their long-standing talk on corruption and take concrete action Read more >

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

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 >

Mining and tenure security legal framework is overdue for change

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 >

Episode 5 – Land and Corruption: Story of the Marginalised

Image: Corruption Watch The fifth and final episode of our new podcast series series on land corruption, titled Land and Corruption: Story of the Marginalised, is now available. The series marks our work in the second phase of Transparency International’s (TI) Land and Corruption in Africa project, where our focus area was land in the Read more >

Episode 4 – Land and Corruption: Story of the Marginalised

Image: PixHere Corruption Watch (CW) is the South Africa lead for the Land and Corruption in Africa phase 2 (LCA2) project, driven by Transparency International (TI), and is part of an eight-chapter team – with Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe – that successfully completed the first phase from 2014 to 2019. Overall, Read more >

Episode 3 – Land and Corruption: Story of the Marginalised

Image: Corruption Watch Episodes 1 and 2 of our new five-part podcast series on land corruption, respectively, laid down the background to the Land and Corruption in Africa phase 2 (LCA2) project, driven by Transparency International (TI), and moved towards discussion of land in the agricultural sector. Now episode 3 has been released. Corruption Watch Read more >