Today’s release of Transparency International’s (TI) 2014 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), the most widely used indicator of corruption worldwide, highlights again the gradual erosion of trust in South Africa’s public sector. Corruption Watch notes with great concern that the country has again scored below 50. According to TI, a score below 50 indicates a significant Read more >
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CORRUPTION NEWS
Transparency International’s (TI) 20th Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) has been released today. The annual index ranks countries or territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption. The lower the score, which falls between 100 and 0, the more corrupt the country is perceived to be. Out of 175 countries scrutinised, South Africa managed to Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS
Transparency International’s (TI) 20th Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) will be released on 3 December. This year's index ranks 175 countries or territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption. The lower the score, which falls between 100 and 0, the more corrupt the country is perceived to be. In 2013 South Africa did not Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS
South Africa is an important cog in the global human trafficking mechanism – the country is a source, destination and transit point for the trade. According to legal research company LexisNexis, which released its human trafficking awareness index earlier this month, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Bloemfontein and Durban form part of the major routes. The 2014 global Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS
Corruption Watch executive director David Lewis chatted to Moneyweb’s Siki Mgabadeli in the wake of the news that the G20 has adopted strict new principles to tackle money laundering and undisclosed beneficial ownership. Download this interview as an MP3 Siki Mgabadeli: G20 leaders over the weekend vowed to implement an anti-corruption action plan as part Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS
Source: Transparency International This weekend G20 leaders adopted new high level principles on beneficial ownership transparency in Brisbane, declaring “financial transparency, in particular the transparency of beneficial ownership of legal persons and arrangements a ‘high priority’”. But just how good are these principles? Here are six take-home points: 1. They were adopted. And that’s a Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS
The G20 summit might be over for this year, but for anti-corruption activists the work has just begun. Three prominent South Africans – Corruption Watch chairperson Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane, Archbishop Emeritus and Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu, and former Constitutional Court judge Richard Goldstone – joined the call earlier in November to the leaders of the Read more >
PRESS RELEASES
An open letter published today, addressed to the G20 leaders in advance of the summit in Brisbane, Australia, calls for the world’s biggest economies to take concrete action to combat corruption by making the global financial system more transparent. Twenty-four leaders of civil society representing every continent, including two Nobel laureates, have joined forces to Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS
An open letter published today, addressed to the G20 leaders in advance of the summit in Brisbane, Australia, calls for the world’s biggest economies to take concrete action to combat corruption by making the global financial system more transparent. The drafting of the letter has been driven by Transparency International. Twenty-four leaders of civil society Read more >