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Public procurement is everybody’s business, and collaboration is key

25 Sep 2024, 8:42

The process of managing the debarment of errant suppliers by government is hardly rocket science, and should be covered swiftly if the relevant technology is embraced and incorporated. A more collaborative effort will make it more efficient. This is the view of Prof Geo Quinot, a procurement law expert at Stellenbosch University, who has once Read more >

PUBLICATIONS

2024 Procurement Watch report unpacks current procurement risk trends

20 Sep 2024, 12:10

Corruption Watch (CW), partnering again with procurement law expert Prof Geo Quinot of Stellenbosch University, today released the 2024 Procurement Watch Report on Procurement Risk Trends. This is the fourth in CW’s series on procurement risk trends, and presents an analysis of selected forms of procurement data between 2016 and 2024. Previous reports were published in Read more >

PUBLICATIONS

CW report further underscores need for public procurement reform

28 Sep 2023, 14:25

Image by Freepik Corruption Watch’s recent Procurement Risk Trends 2023 report records the alarming rate at which state organs use the practice of deviations and contract expansions in public procurement, and not always for good purposes. While it clarifies that there may be perfectly valid reasons for deviating from a prescribed procurement procedure or for Read more >

GOVERNANCE

Latest CW report tracks procurement risk trends

20 Sep 2023, 11:13

Corruption Watch (CW), working with procurement law expert Professor Geo Quinot of Stellenbosch University, released Procurement Risk Trends 2023, the third such report, following the first two that were published in 2021 and 2022, respectively. These reports, which cover the period between 2016 and 2023, specifically focus on trends in public procurement deviations and contract expansions. Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Covid-19 procurement irregularities at R8.9-billion, with more to come

11 May 2023, 11:00

The Special Investigating Unit’s (SIU) third final report on its wide-ranging investigation into Covid-19 procurement irregularities under Proclamation R23 of 2020 is now publicly available – find part 1 and part 2 here. R23 authorised the SIU to investigate procurement conducted under the Covid-19 national state of disaster, which was declared in March 2020. It Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Open Secrets and SWI welcome Seriti and Musi judgment

18 Apr 2023, 12:52

Source: Open SecretsImage: Open Secrets Open Secrets and Shadow World Investigations welcome the judgment delivered by the South Gauteng High Court which confirms that judges must be held accountable for their conduct while in active service, even after their retirement. It is an important victory for accountability and the integrity of the judiciary. The court Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

SA’s dysfunctional universities: the consequences of corrupt decisions

08 Feb 2023, 10:06

By Prof Jonathan JansenFirst published on The Conversation Africa What happens when those responsible for managing universities cannot trust each other to act with integrity? In a nutshell, as I discuss in my new book, Corrupted: A study of chronic dysfunction in South African universities, dysfunction is the consequence. This is the situation playing out Read more >

RAISING AWARENESS

Use of data for the public good is growing, albeit slowly

01 Nov 2022, 12:27

Public procurement is an area of governance that is particularly prone to corruption because it is the nexus of power, money, and decision-making. If any of those factors are abused, the losses for the state can be costly, and the gains for the corrupt substantial. Taxpayers have a right to know where their money goes, Read more >

RAISING AWARENESS

SOEs, state security get overhaul, but no accountability for Kodwa, Mahlobo

28 Oct 2022, 12:19

While President Cyril Ramaphosa’s responses to the state capture commission’s recommendations on the renewal of state owned entities and the intelligence sector have positive prospects, he remains silent on the deputy ministers in his government who were fingered in wrongdoing. The biggest casualties of state capture in South Africa, SOEs that were robbed of billions Read more >