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CORRUPTION NEWS

Why does corruption in Africa continue to thrive?

By Anton du Plessis Corruption is the most neglected human rights violation of our time. It fuels injustice, inequality and deprivation, and is a major catalyst for migration and terrorism. In Africa, the social and political consequences of corruption rob nations of resources and potential, and drive inequality, resentment and radicalisation. Corruption cheats the continent’s governments of Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Anti-corruption and happiness go hand in hand

by Kateryna Tysbenko  There is a clear link between the level of corruption in a country and people’s attitude to corruption. If you shrug your shoulders and accept there’s little to be done, corruption remains high and you are unhappy. If corruption makes you angry and you do something constructive about it, like pass laws and Read more >

PUBLICATIONS

Reputation Thieves – a youth story produced with FunDza

Together with the FunDza Literacy Trust, we now publish our fourth youth-targeted story, Reputation Thieves. It’s an exciting story about identity theft and misuse of funds. Catch up with our previous youth-focused stories, also produced in partnership with FunDza – Licensed to Lie, The Whistleblowers, and Pay-off! Chapter 1  |  Chapter 2  |  Chapter 3  Read more >

HEROES & ZEROES

Brave, honest car guard is our hero

Tshepo Molaoele, a car guard at The Company’s Garden in Cape Town, recently helped foil a car theft attempt by refusing to take a bribe offered by the thieves, and then tipping the police off, which led to the arrest of the criminals. For his honesty and indefatigable sense of right and wrong, we make Read more >

LITIGATION

CW and R2K set to challenge arms deal cover-up

18 August 2016 Corruption Watch (CW) and the Right2Know Campaign (R2K) are preparing to challenge the findings of the Seriti Commission in court. The litigation will be launched in the North Gauteng High Court in September 2016 and founding papers will be placed on the applicants’ websites. The Seriti Commission was chaired by Judge Willie Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

What makes corruption complex? 

By Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church The third instalment in the CDA Perspectives series on corruption, criminal justice and legitimacy examines various elements that add to corruption’s complexity and make it harder to come up with a sustainable solution. Part one of the series dealt with common approaches to understanding and combating corruption, and part two looked at the mismatch between anti-corruption programmes Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Corruption and Poaching: The Tusk at Hand

By Maurice Oniango and Andrew Ochieng First published by Journalists for Transparency Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania are waging a war on poaching, but one of the greatest challenges to winning it is corruption among the people fighting it. Secretive criminal syndicates pay off police, judges and customs officials to keep their lucrative trade moving. Read more >

POLICY AND ADVOCACY

Civil society demands justice for Bazooka

Photo by John Clarke On Thursday 19 May 2016 a group of social justice organisations wrote to the minister of police and the national police commissioner requesting a public progress report by the South African Police Service (SAPS) regarding the investigation into the assassination of Amadiba Crisis Committee chairperson Sikhosiphi “Bazooka” Rhadebe. Mr Rhadebe was Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Invest responsibly and don’t export corruption to Africa

First published on the ISS website Governments and business must do more to combat corruption as the biggest threat to African peace and development, said Institute for Security Studies (ISS) executive director Anton du Plessis, speaking on Friday at the World Economic Forum Africa meeting in Kigali. Du Plessis said the biggest threat to peace Read more >