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Whistle-blowers take centre stage on WWBD

By Janine Erasmus World Press Freedom Day (WPFD), marked every year on 3 May, is a day of both reflection and reminders – the former giving media professionals a chance to think about issues of press freedom and professional ethics, and the latter prompting governments to respect their commitment to press freedom. But WPFD is Read more >

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SA achieves respectable score on Freedom in the World index for 2024

South Africa’s highly-anticipated national and provincial elections went off smoothly for the most part on 29 May 2024, though the voter turnout of just over 58% was disappointing but not unexpected. Nevertheless, the country’s Independent Electoral Commission, as well as the South African Human Rights Commission, declared the event free and fair after several days Read more >

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Corruption in the healthcare sector can take a deadly toll

Health sector corruption is a long-standing concern for Corruption Watch. As a member of the Health Sector Anti-Corruption Forum (HSACF), which is chaired by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), we represent civil society in this collaborative effort, with law enforcement agencies, health sector regulators, government departments and private sector, to fast-track investigations of fraud and Read more >

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CW calls for harsher sentences in cases involving harm to whistle-blowers

By Belinda PhetoFirst published on News24 Corruption Watch has called for harsher sentences in cases involving whistle-blowers. The organisation was responding to the sentences handed down to the killers of Babita Deokaran, a senior health official at the Gauteng Department of Health. She was assassinated after flagging suspicious payments worth R850-million to shell companies and Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

World Whistle-blower Day no cause for celebration, really

World Whistle-blower Day is marked every year on 23 June. It’s tempting to say we ‘celebrate’ it, but in today’s world whistle-blowing is no cause for celebration – especially not for those who report and expose corruption in an increasingly hostile space. The very fact that we need to have whistle-blowers is in itself no Read more >

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The business of killing – organised assassinations in SA

In recent years South Africans have been stunned by a spate of murders of high-profile individuals – gangsters and crime fighters alike. We think immediately of Babita Deokaran in 2021, Muzi Manyathi in 2022, Cloete and Tom Murray in 2023, Mpumalanga crime boss Clyde Mnisi also in 2023 and his widow two days after his Read more >