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CW gears up to accelerate justice in 2nd decade of fighting corruption

04 Apr 2023, 9:10

Corruption Watch (CW) today released its 11th annual corruption report, Accelerating justice, at a time in the country when access to justice is looking more and more remote for millions. The report comes out at one of the lowest points in South Africa’s democratic history, where the consequences of years of graft and corruption have Read more >

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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 >

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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 >

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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 >

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Covid-19 corruption pushes govt out of lethargy

08 Sep 2020, 14:40

By Janine ErasmusFirst published on Transparency International Along with other ordinary South Africans, we at Corruption Watch have followed with increasing dismay the growing number of reports of corruption related to the Covid-19 pandemic. The perpetrators of this corruption have been unashamedly brazen in their hijacking of the emergency measures put into place to deal Read more >

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Transparent tenders will cut Covid-related corruption

04 Aug 2020, 8:30

By Caroline James and Karam Jeet SinghFirst published on Maverick Citizen President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on 23 July 2020 a variety of measures to deal with Covid-related corruption. Mere days later the media exposed that Madzikane II Thandisizwe Diko – the husband of presidential spokesperson Khusela Diko – had received contracts worth R125-million for Covid-19 Read more >

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TI: two clear opportunities for a better post-Covid world

27 Jul 2020, 11:36

By Kwazi Dlamini The Covid-19 pandemic has turned the world as we know upside down. It has illuminated shortcomings, failures and inequality in societies all over the world and while there are nations who have handled the crisis supremely well, the same cannot be said for the majority. Transparency International (TI) has released a new Read more >

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Fighting Covid-19 also requires intensifying anti-corruption efforts

20 Jul 2020, 16:30

By Caroline James and Karam Jeet SinghFirst published on News24 Corruption Watch, along with the nation, anxiously sees the number of Covid-19 cases rising while the number of available hospital beds fall. The public health system is under extreme strain but significant resources have been put aside to address the crisis. In this national state Read more >

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Provincial health dept warns against fake news spread

07 Apr 2020, 14:56

Fake news is rife during the Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa. Image by MSN. By Thato Mahlangu People spreading fake news during the Covid-19 pandemic will be prosecuted, warns the Gauteng Department of Health. The provincial health department said on Monday that members of the public should be vigilant of any misleading information and fake Read more >

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