OUTREACH AND EVENTS

TI hosts defence anti-corruption workshop in SA

By Guy Martin First published on DefenceWeb Transparency International has hosted an anti-corruption workshop with civil society leaders in Johannesburg, after providing anti-corruption training and guidance to the South African military. Leah Wawro, the project lead for civil society at Transparency International (TI) UK’s Defence and Security Programme, said that thanks to the arms deal, Read more >

OUTREACH AND EVENTS

Join us at the VIP Youth Festival!

Corruption Watch is out and about next week – we’re joining forces with dynamic youth content agency, Livity Africa, for its #VIPYouthFest in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, from 16 – 18 June. It’s all happening at 73 Juta Street. The three day event, held under the theme: The State of SA Youth Today, will feature live debates, Read more >

CORRUPTION SNAPSHOTS

Global corruption snapshots: 11 June 2015

UNODC assists Senegal in its fight against money-laundering An intensive training on financial investigation delivered to Senegalese authorities ended on 22 May. Organized by UNODC, through its Global Programme against Money-Laundering (GPML), the training sessions on investigative means to fight money-laundering took place in schools and training centres of Dakar, between April and May 2015. Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

The rationale for fighting corruption

The cost of corruption is much higher than would seem at first glance. If you want to understand why Corruption Watch, Transparency International, and all the other organisations fighting corruption do what they do, read this brief prepared by the OECD’s CleanGovBiz initiative. The costs of corruption for economic, political and social development are becoming Read more >

HEROES & ZEROES

Former top cop pleads guilty to corruption, kickbacks

Another bad police story – our zero this week is former deputy national police commissioner Lieutenant-General Hamilton Hlela, who has pleaded guilty in Pretoria’s Specialised Commercial Crimes Court to corruption and receiving kickbacks. The gratifications came from Midway Two Holdings, a company that was awarded tenders to the value of R4 billion between 2007 and Read more >

DEAR CORRUPTION WATCH

Fee just as illegal as bribe

Dear Corruption Watch: Coverage of the showdown between the former head of the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission and the minister of trade and industry glossed over the “grease payments” she was trying to stamp out. People are often required, when registering their businesses, to pay an extra “fee” to a “runner” who takes the Read more >

RAISING AWARENESS

Investigator’s testimony fingers Zuma, Shaik

By Lee-Ann Alfreds President Jacob Zuma received “financial benefit” from the arms deal. And there was “prima facie” evidence of corruption involving the president and related to the deal, the Arms Procurement Commission heard last month. Testifying on 18 and 19 May before the enquiry which is investigating allegations of fraud and corruption in South Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

AG: municipal supply chain management problematic

Municipal employees, councillors, their relatives and broader public servants benefited from municipality contracts worth over R800-million between 2013 and 2014. This was revealed by auditor-general Kimi Makwetu in his latest local government audit report released on Wednesday. Of the amount, the biggest chunk – R781-million – went to close relatives of employees and councillors. The Read more >