Not much time is left for you to nominate your Anti-Crime and Corruption Hero for 2025! The annual poll, organised by the OCCRP, normally 'honours' the world's most corrupt people so as to shine the spotlight on their evil deeds - but this year it's corruption fighters around the globe who will be celebrated and profiled. Will we see a South African victor for the first time? Nominations close on 30 November.
Not much time is left for you to nominate your Anti-Crime and Corruption Hero for 2025! The annual poll, organised by the OCCRP, normally 'honours' the world's most corrupt people so as to shine the spotlight on their evil deeds - but this year it's corruption fighters around the globe who will be celebrated and profiled. Will we see a South African victor for the first time? Nominations close on 30 November.
OCCRP: It's time to nominate our anti-crime and corruption heroes
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It’s like something out of the movies: rogue killer cops, poor governance of labour practices, blatant favouritism from the top, and death threats for those who dare to stop all of it. This is what the Madlanga commission heard has been happening in the City of Ekurhuleni as witnesses spent the week recounting their experience of a rogue deputy police chief who enjoyed unfettered protection from the top municipal office.
It’s like something out of the movies: rogue killer cops, poor governance of labour practices, blatant favouritism from the top, and death threats for those who dare to stop all of it. This is what the Madlanga commission heard has been happening in the City of Ekurhuleni as witnesses spent the week recounting their experience of a rogue deputy police chief who enjoyed unfettered protection from the top municipal office.
Government slammed for failed farm ownership plans
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Civil society organisations have asked Parliament to investigate the failure of worker equity schemes. Corruption Watch, the Legal Resources Centre, Surplus People Project, and the Support Centre for Land Change met with the Portfolio Committee on Land Reform and Rural Development on 12 November to ask for its intervention in long-standing complaints about these schemes.
Civil society organisations have asked Parliament to investigate the failure of worker equity schemes. Corruption Watch, the Legal Resources Centre, Surplus People Project, and the Support Centre for Land Change met with the Portfolio Committee on Land Reform and Rural Development on 12 November to ask for its intervention in long-standing complaints about these schemes.
Leading civil society and media organisations have written to Chief Justice Mandisa Maya to express grave concern over the recent gagging order imposed on Open Secrets. The organisations say this "strikes at the very transparency on which public confidence in the judiciary depends” and urge the chief justice to consider measures to prevent the excessive or gratuitous use of such tactics.
Leading civil society and media organisations have written to Chief Justice Mandisa Maya to express grave concern over the recent gagging order imposed on Open Secrets. The organisations say this "strikes at the very transparency on which public confidence in the judiciary depends” and urge the chief justice to consider measures to prevent the excessive or gratuitous use of such tactics.
Civil society calls on chief justice to act against expanding use of gagging orders
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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.
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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.
It’s that time again! The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) is once more looking for its person of the year – but this time the organisation has flipped the annual poll on its head. “For years, we named the ‘Corrupt Person of the Year’, but in a global landscape increasingly dominated by audacious Read more >
By Janine Erasmus – CW Voices Events highlighted in South Africa’s news cycle in the last three months or so have exposed our country’s deep-rooted challenges with corruption, organised crime, and the haunting lack of protection for whistle-blowers who expose criminal activity. From the revelations of alleged criminal syndicate infiltration into our policing system – Read more >
Suspended Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) deputy chief of police Brigadier Julius Mkhwanazi is alleged by three witnesses – current and former employees of the city – who appeared before the Madlanga commission this week to have run riot in the quest for power while he enjoyed protection from former city manager, Dr Imogen Mashazi. Read more >
Image: supplied By Liezl HumanFirst published on GroundUp Civil society organisations demanded answers on Wednesday from Parliament over what they claim has been a failed government project to uplift the lives of farm workers across the country. “These farm workers became symbols of transformation while others cashed in on their name. It’s a betrayal of Read more >
UPDATE: The Office of the Chief Justice has clarified certain concerns in a statement relating to the order. In it, the office presents what it deems to be the facts of the matter, giving details of the process leading up to the issuing of the order, and sharing the order itself. “The order is temporary Read more >
