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CW to release its 2024 annual corruption report

Corruption Watch (CW) will release its 13th annual corruption report, titled Accountable together, on Thursday 27 March 2025. This year’s report represents a critical moment in South Africa’s democratic history, after the advent of the significant political shift predicted in CW’s 2023 annual report, Changing the Landscape. The government of national unity (GNU) is the result of Read more >

PUBLICATIONS

TI addresses land corruption in Africa from AU perspective, with new paper

Land governance in Africa is increasingly seen as a major challenge, because of the continent’s vast size, its swathes of rich arable land, its fast-growing population, and its food security challenges, among other factors. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation defines land governance as “an existing system of rules, processes and structures by which decisions Read more >

PUBLICATIONS

CW looks forward to a changed landscape 30 years into democracy

Corruption Watch (CW) releases today its 12th annual corruption report, titled Changing the Landscape, just a few months ahead of one of the most critical turning points in the country’s post-democratic history. Presented during an election year, this report bears stark witness to the path South Africa finds itself on after 30 years of democracy, Read more >

PUBLICATIONS

CW to release 2023 annual corruption report on 3 April

Corruption Watch (CW) will release its 12th annual corruption report, titled Changing the Landscape, on Wednesday 3 April 2024. Now in its second decade of existence, CW’s work is more important than ever. Despite the presence of additional players in the anti-corruption space since the organisation’s launch in 2012, the levels of corruption have not diminished – Read more >

OPINIONS

Farm worker equity schemes a failure of both government and farm owners

Image: Vuk’uzenzele By Melusi NcalaFirst published on News24 The South African government, under the African National Congress (ANC) rule, cares little about the plight of marginalised people – and the ANC-led government’s own abhorrent track record in upholding human rights tells the story.   Besides its well-documented service delivery failures, the handling of the land question Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Episode 5 – Land and Corruption: Story of the Marginalised

Image: Corruption Watch The fifth and final episode of our new podcast series series on land corruption, titled Land and Corruption: Story of the Marginalised, is now available. The series marks our work in the second phase of Transparency International’s (TI) Land and Corruption in Africa project, where our focus area was land in the Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Episode 4 – Land and Corruption: Story of the Marginalised

Image: PixHere Corruption Watch (CW) is the South Africa lead for the Land and Corruption in Africa phase 2 (LCA2) project, driven by Transparency International (TI), and is part of an eight-chapter team – with Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe – that successfully completed the first phase from 2014 to 2019. Overall, Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Episode 3 – Land and Corruption: Story of the Marginalised

Image: Corruption Watch Episodes 1 and 2 of our new five-part podcast series on land corruption, respectively, laid down the background to the Land and Corruption in Africa phase 2 (LCA2) project, driven by Transparency International (TI), and moved towards discussion of land in the agricultural sector. Now episode 3 has been released. Corruption Watch Read more >