This week was meant to see the start of the Free State asbestos fraud and corruption case in the high court in Bloemfontein – with the first witness scheduled to […]
A rocky start to the fraud and corruption trial relating to an alleged irregular tender of the Free State government, worth R255-million this week.
State capture: FS asbestos trial off to a tricky start
State capture
The Parliamentary Monitoring Group recently unveiled its latest digital tool, the ParliMeter. The platform uses open data sourced from Parliament to help residents and parliamentarians alike by improving access to information, enhancing transparency and therefore monitoring capabilities, and empowering civil society and residents to hold their elected representatives accountable.
The Parliamentary Monitoring Group recently unveiled its latest digital tool, the ParliMeter. The platform uses open data sourced from Parliament to help residents and parliamentarians alike by improving access to information, enhancing transparency and therefore monitoring capabilities, and empowering civil society and residents to hold their elected representatives accountable.
The ParliMeter, a new tool for enhancing public participation in Parliament
CW Voices
Youth empowerment is key in corruption fight
Corruption news
We need more young people in the fight for accountability in the public sector, and for that to happen, they need to know what this accountability looks like, writes Moepeng Valencia Talane for CW Voices. Accordingly, Corruption Watch's Strengthening Action Against Corruption project, based in the Eastern Cape, recently trained young activists in advocacy work, communications, and media, and how to hold each other accountable as part of the project's Youth Ambassador for Accountability (YAfA) programme.
We need more young people in the fight for accountability in the public sector, and for that to happen, they need to know what this accountability looks like, writes Moepeng Valencia Talane for CW Voices. Accordingly, Corruption Watch's Strengthening Action Against Corruption project, based in the Eastern Cape, recently trained young activists in advocacy work, communications, and media, and how to hold each other accountable as part of the project's Youth Ambassador for Accountability (YAfA) programme.
Extreme wealth is a threat to democracy, says the Tax Justice Network - and it is not alone in this view. The organisation is one of several voices calling for an extreme wealth tax to be imposed worldwide on the super-rich. This would not only help to address wealth inequality but also have spillover positive effects on crimes such as money laundering, drug trafficking, and corruption, through the simultaneous enforcement of beneficial ownership transparency.
Extreme wealth is a threat to democracy, says the Tax Justice Network - and it is not alone in this view. The organisation is one of several voices calling for an extreme wealth tax to be imposed worldwide on the super-rich. This would not only help to address wealth inequality but also have spillover positive effects on crimes such as money laundering, drug trafficking, and corruption, through the simultaneous enforcement of beneficial ownership transparency.
Extreme wealth tax could boost the fiscus and help fight corruption
Corruption news
Corruption Watch, in collaboration with Social Change Assistance Trust or SCAT, and Transparency International, and co-funded by the European Union, has embarked on the Strengthening Action Against Corruption (SAAC) project which focuses specifically on empowering and educating community advice offices/civil society organisations in the Eastern Cape province. Follow our activities here.
Strengthening Action Against Corruption
The SAAC Project
Veza (a colloquial term for ‘reveal’ or ‘expose’) allows you to: · Report incidents of police corruption and police misconduct, · Access information on your rights when you encounter the police, · Access information on SA's 1 150 police stations, such as locations, resources, budget and personnel, · Locate your nearest Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences (FCS) unit, · And much more.
South African taxpayers have forked out an estimated R521-billion over the last 15 years to keep state owned enterprises (SOEs) alive, and have received nothing in return. Despite the bailouts, many companies continue to fail due to financial mismanagement and corruption, and the bailouts may be much higher than the National Treasury estimates. During a Read more >
By Moepeng TalaneFirst published on Business Day What reasonable measures must Parliament use to ensure meaningful public participation in its processes? This is a question that dominated the hearing of arguments on March 6 regarding an application brought by Corruption Watch to the Constitutional Court. The matter follows the 2022 recommendation to President Cyril Ramaphosa Read more >
Image: Flickr/GovernmentZA The Parliamentary Monitoring Group (PMG) is well-known as a dependable source of information on our legislature and its doings. Providing information on committee meetings, alerting the public to calls for comment on bills and discussion documents, and publishing the scheduled programme of meetings and debates is all in day’s work for the organisation. Read more >
Towards the end of March we reported on the launch of the Border Management and Immigration Anti-Corruption Forum (BMIACF), a Department of Home Affairs and Special Investigating Unit initiative. Corruption Watch not only supports this vital collaborative initiative, which aims to to clamp down on corruption in this sector, but is a member of the Read more >
Corruption Watch (CW) today releases its 13th annual corruption report, titled Accountable Together, as the country navigates a major political shift represented by the government of national unity (GNU), in place since the May elections last year. It now falls to the entire country to seize this opportunity to work together so that all can Read more >
