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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

Police get a resounding thumbs down from SA

27 Aug 2024, 11:17

South Africans have a problem with their police. This is a long-standing and well-documented situation, and Corruption Watch is just one organisation that has done extensive research and analysis in this area. Our police campaign ran for several years, and our online police tool Veza (a colloquial term for ‘reveal’ or ‘expose’) allows users to Read more >

CW VOICES

Reflections on the intersection of GBV and corruption in an election year

11 Apr 2024, 12:10

By Siphokuhle Mkancu – CW Voices As South Africa prepares for the elections on 29 May, and political parties rally behind their manifestos full of promises of change, it is important for us as the citizenry to reflect on gender-based violence (GBV). Corruption Watch released its annual report which includes a focus on the intersection Read more >

RAISING AWARENESS

Land and Corruption in Africa 2 – telling stories of the marginalised

13 Oct 2023, 14:32

Land ownership in South Africa is a complex topic, with dozens of laws regulating the purchase, redistribution, and tenure of land, as well as the property rights of landowners. These laws date back decades, through pre- and post-colonial apartheid eras, and they govern different spaces – urban and rural, commercial and residential, peri-urban and farming, Read more >

LAND AND CORRUPTION

Land and Corruption in Africa: a Transparency International project

12 Oct 2023, 10:00

For nearly 10 years, Transparency International (TI) has been conducting research into the connection between land and corruption in Africa, through its project of that name. Phase one of Land and Corruption in Africa was successfully rolled out from 2014 to 2019 and yielded rich country-by-country research on land corruption risks and the impact on Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Should SA criminalise “abuse of public power”? A brief discussion

01 Feb 2023, 12:51

By Natalie KeetsiFirst posted on the Global Anticorruption Blog South Africa has laws which criminalise various forms of corruption (bribery, embezzlement, and the like), yet officeholders have regularly exploited their positions of power for illicit gains. Part of the reason for this is that it often can be very difficult to prove the elements of Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

ED of TI Madagascar summoned after denouncing corruption

29 Nov 2022, 12:41

Image: Publish What You Pay First published on Amnesty International Responding to the questioning of the executive director of Transparency International Initiative Madagascar (TI-MG) Ketakandriana Rafitoson by the police this afternoon (23 November), Muleya Mwananyanda, the regional director for Amnesty International East and Southern Africa Regional Office, said: “The Madagascar authorities must refrain from the Read more >

PRESS RELEASES

Leaders still failing SA in the fight against corruption, says CW report

14 Sep 2022, 9:52

The sixth edition of the Corruption Watch Analysis of Corruption Trends (ACT) report and podcast, released today, unpacks the many ways in which corruption undermines and erodes fundamental human rights. The 1 037 whistle-blower reports received between January and June 2022 highlight how public and private sector corruption persistently obstructs access to basic human rights. This Read more >

PUBLICATIONS

CW to release its ACT report 2022 on 14 September

09 Sep 2022, 15:23

Corruption Watch will release the sixth edition of its half-yearly report, the Analysis of Corruption Trends (ACT), on Wednesday 14 September 2022. The report will highlight the intersection of corruption in the public and private sectors, the struggles faced by those advocating for anti-corruption practices and in particular, the hardships experienced by ordinary persons who Read more >