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Whistleblower Protection Bill is on the way

The Whistleblower Protection Bill is due to be introduced to Parliament later this year. The bill follows on the state capture commission’s recommendation, contained in its report released in 2022, that whistle-blower legislation be amended to provide increased protection. Former chief justice Raymond Zondo recommended that government take guidance from the UN Convention Against Corruption Read more >

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TI addresses land corruption in Africa from AU perspective, with new paper

Land governance in Africa is increasingly seen as a major challenge, because of the continent’s vast size, its swathes of rich arable land, its fast-growing population, and its food security challenges, among other factors. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation defines land governance as “an existing system of rules, processes and structures by which decisions Read more >

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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 >

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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 >

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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 >

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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 >