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G20 Rio declaration ignores corruption, risks exacerbating inequality and poverty

20 Nov 2024, 15:59

Image: Flickr/g20brasil24 The G20 leaders’ declaration released at the close of the Rio summit makes all the right noises regarding various issues ranging from global conflict and inequality to food security and climate change. However, its take on action against corruption is poor, to say the least. Out of 85 paragraphs in a 22-page document, Read more >

‘We cannot prosecute our way out of corruption’ – NPA boss Batohi

20 Nov 2024, 12:45

By Julia EvansFirst published on Daily Maverick ‘There is an awkward truth at the heart of almost all anti-corruption efforts under way today, in countless countries across the world,” said advocate Shamila Batohi, the national director of public prosecutions. “The truth is, prosecuting corrupt public officials and private-sector players, even the most senior ones, won’t Read more >

NACAC’s wish list for new anti-corruption body, amid bureaucratic red tape

19 Nov 2024, 12:30

The National Anti-Corruption Advisory Council (NACAC) has, through its chairperson Firoz Cachalia, made public some of the contents of its wish list for an anti-corruption body it proposed to President Cyril Ramaphosa in a mid-term report it submitted early this year. Cachalia was a panellist in a discussion at the third state capture commission conference Read more >

STATE CAPTURE

Gcaleka: fight against corruption needs resources, ethical leaders

18 Nov 2024, 12:45

Former evidence leader and head of the legal team of the state capture commission, Advocate Paul Pretorious, believes that for government’s efforts to fight capture to succeed, all institutions charged with implementing recommendations would have to look back at the commission for inspiration. The commission, which was chaired by former chief justice Raymond Zondo from Read more >

POLICY AND ADVOCACY

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

14 Nov 2024, 14:51

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 >

RAISING AWARENESS

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

13 Nov 2024, 10:44

Corruption Watch (CW), in collaboration with Social Change Assistance Trust (SCAT) and Transparency International (TI) and co-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 >

CORRUPTION NEWS

SA and UK auditors-general talk about the importance of their institutions

12 Nov 2024, 10:46

The Good Governance Academy (not to be confused with Good Governance Africa) is a non-profit organisation that collaborates globally to share information on critical business issues as a public good, under the patronship of its founder, former Supreme Court judge Prof Mervyn King. The organisation is known primarily for promoting good governance in the corporate Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Newly launched Zondo tracker an asset for civil society

06 Nov 2024, 11:43

South Africans who wish to stay abreast of developments in the implementation of the state capture commission’s recommendations can now do so with the Zondo Recommendations Tracker, a tool that was launched on Tuesday by civil society organisation (CSO) Open Secrets. CSOs working under the banner of the Civil Society Working Group on State Capture Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Improving SA’s anti-corruption framework in the long and short term

05 Nov 2024, 12:18

To successfully tackle a problem and implement meaningful policy reform, there must be a clear understanding not only of the problem itself, but of the context in which that problem exists. For South Africa’s corruption problem, such understanding of the context is inadequate and little empirical information is available in this regard, and as a Read more >