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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 >

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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 >

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Calling Southern African anti-corruption warriors!

Calling all Southern African land activists and anti-corruption warriors! Exciting news! Ashoka – Southern Africa, the International Anti-Corruption Conference and Transparency International have teamed up to launch the first ChangemakerXchange in Southern Africa from 2 – 5 October in Johannesburg, South Africa. In Africa, one in every two people needing to access land-related services is affected by corruption. This could be a bribe Read more >

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Emerging market companies disappoint in transparency

Transparency International (TI) today released the latest version of its Transparency in Corporate Reporting (TRAC) series of reports, this one focusing on Assessing Emerging Market Multinationals. The report assessed 100 of the fastest-growing companies based in 15 emerging market countries and operating in 185 countries around the world in terms of their public disclosure practices. Read more >

PUBLICATIONS

Firms need to fight graft with intent

by David Lewis First published in Business Day The best protection against the risk of corruption at companies is a comprehensive, fully implemented, and continually monitored anti-corruption programme, a new study has found. Corruption Watch’s Transparency in Corporate Reporting study is the South African leg of a series of identical studies undertaken by selected Transparency Read more >

PUBLICATIONS

Corporate reporting transparency in spotlight

Corruption Watch released its Transparency in Corporate Reporting: South Africa (TRAC) report yesterday evening. This report is part of Transparency International’s (TI) series that assesses the transparency – an essential tool in combating corruption and enabling accountability – of companies in various countries. In the series, TI surveys the world’s largest companies in terms of Read more >

PRESS

Media invite: launch of CW’s TRAC report

Next week Corruption Watch releases its latest report, conducted in collaboration with Transparency International (TI). The report titled Transparency in Corporate Reporting: South Africa, forms part of TI’s Transparency Reporting on Anti-Corruption (TRAC) series. The study, the first of its kind in South Africa, measures 50 of the country’s largest listed and unlisted companies in Read more >

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Money laundering and related crimes – info centre

Money laundering and illicit financial flows are two related, but distinct types of corruption that pose a huge threat to development and political and economic stability around the world. Developing countries are especially hard hit. The two are closely linked to the concept of beneficial ownership, which is a term referring to the true owner Read more >

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UK anti-corruption summit: South Africa’s statement

The UK’s anti-corruption summit, hosted by Prime Minister David Cameron, aims to drive a worldwide increase in action against corruption. Already over 40 countries have issued statements setting out the concrete actions they will take in order to tackle corruption. This is what South Africa commits to: South Africa thanks the United Kingdom and Prime Read more >