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From crisis to action: We must act ruthlessly against corruption

09 Apr 2021, 9:30

By Mavuso MsimangFirst published on News24 “Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”Arundhati Roy The past year, 2020, will go down in history as one of monumental shifts and changes in how we live our lives. It was a time when the Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

PFMA 2020: improvement here and there, but not sustained

06 Apr 2021, 11:46

The latest national and provincial government audit outcomes, released by the Auditor-General South Africa (AGSA) on 31 March, show “signs of improvement” in some auditees, according to Auditor-General (AG) Tsakani Maluleke. The work was conducted under the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA) and covered the financial year of 2019-2020. Besides the provincial and national departments, Read more >

WHISTLE-BLOWERS

CW annual report: average 11 whistle-blower reports a day in 2020

25 Mar 2021, 9:34

The Corruption Watch (CW) 2020 annual report, titled From Crisis to Action, reflects the extent to which all organisations and individuals in South Africa witnessed and experienced the massive impact of the global coronavirus pandemic. During this period the public was increasingly outraged by the rampant corruption that emerged in relation to procurement and distribution Read more >

PRESS RELEASES

MEDIA ADVISORY: CW to launch 2020 annual corruption report

19 Mar 2021, 15:28

Corruption Watch will release its ninth annual corruption report, titled From Crisis to Action, on Thursday, 25 March at 10h00. The report provides an overview of the organisation’s anti-corruption efforts in 2020, a year that was marred by the Covid-19 pandemic, a defining global health crisis that also exposed how deeply the culture of corruption Read more >

LEGISLATION AND SUBMISSIONS

Municipal elections to be a major test on two fronts

11 Mar 2021, 10:42

Two factors make the upcoming local government elections like no other we’ve experienced – the Covid-19 pandemic, and the imminent enforcement of the Political Party Funding Act, due to commence on 1 April 2021. The elections are scheduled to take place between 4 August and 1 November, and will be the sixth municipal election held Read more >

GOVERNANCE

SA languishes in corruption index despite recent cleanup moves

01 Mar 2021, 12:03

By David Lewis and Janine ErasmusFirst published on Business Live Despite a number of positive developments during 2020 on the anti-corruption front, SA’s score on Transparency International’s corruption perceptions index remains static. There are several possible reasons for this, not least of which is the governing ANC’s apparent unwillingness or inability to tackle corruption in Read more >

PRESS RELEASES

CW innovates with Veza tool, empowers public to hold SAPS accountable

17 Feb 2021, 10:05

Corruption Watch (CW), in response to the many whistle-blower complaints it has received on police corruption, and inspired by its engagements with communities experiencing police violence and abuse, today launches an interactive open data tool – Veza (a colloquial term for ‘reveal’ or ‘expose’). The first of its kind in South Africa, Veza improves transparency in Read more >

PRESS RELEASES

MEDIA INVITATION: CW to launch Veza, a tool to enhance Saps accountability

12 Feb 2021, 17:09

In 2018 Corruption Watch was one of four winners of the Google Impact Challenge, which tasked local innovators to solve a social problem using technology. Because the organisation, since its launch in 2012, has been inundated by various reports of police corruption, abuse of power, and maladministration, it developed the Veza Tool – an interactive Read more >

INVESTIGATION

TERS corruption report: companies seize the chance to fleece employees

01 Feb 2021, 6:39

By Kwazi Dlamini As the nation settled in to a strict lockdown in March 2020, put in place to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, President Cyril Ramaphosa made a promise to the public; the promise was that government would help those severely affected by the lockdown, and it would protect the funds put Read more >