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ED’s end-of-year message to all CW supporters

12 Dec 2023, 12:02

Corruption Watch’s executive director Karam Singh shares his thoughts and reflections on the year now all but behind us, in this letter to the organisation’s many supporters. Dear supporter 2023 was an impactful year for Corruption Watch (CW) – not only for our team, but for the country, and all those working to end corruption. The Read more >

LAND AND CORRUPTION

Land and Corruption in Africa 2 – telling stories of the marginalised

13 Oct 2023, 14:32

Land ownership in South Africa is a complex topic, with dozens of laws regulating the purchase, redistribution, and tenure of land, as well as the property rights of landowners. These laws date back decades, through pre- and post-colonial apartheid eras, and they govern different spaces – urban and rural, commercial and residential, peri-urban and farming, Read more >

CAMPAIGNS

Land and Corruption in Africa: a Transparency International project

12 Oct 2023, 10:00

For nearly 10 years, Transparency International (TI) has been conducting research into the connection between land and corruption in Africa, through its project of that name. Phase one of Land and Corruption in Africa was successfully rolled out from 2014 to 2019 and yielded rich country-by-country research on land corruption risks and the impact on Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

More protections for SA whistle-blowers on the way, but will they work?

05 Oct 2023, 9:33

By Neil Coetzer, Maricia Smith, Bavukile Magagula, and Anthony AndrewsFirst published on Business Day During June 2023 the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development published a discussion document on proposed reforms for the whistle-blower protection regime in South Africa. Taking its cue from the criticism of the Protected Disclosures Act of 2000 by the Zondo Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

New CSO to focus on protecting, advising climate whistle-blowers

07 Sep 2023, 11:29

Image: Flickr/crustmania By Kwazi Dlamini Newly established French-based civil society organisation Climate Whistleblowers seeks to bring to light the plight of whistle-blowers exposing environmental transgressions against governments and big companies. Launched on 5 June 2023 – World Environment Day – the organisation also aims to throw its weight behind protecting those who speak out against Read more >

LEGISLATION AND SUBMISSIONS

Make whistle-blowers the focus of the law, CW says in DoJ submission

04 Sep 2023, 13:56

Any changes to the whistle-blower protection legislative regime have to acknowledge whistle-blowers as the focal point, and the objective to ensure their broadest possible protection should be a foundational principle of the legislation and the starting point for the drafting of any definitions. This is the submission by Corruption Watch to a discussion paper proposing Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

CW calls for harsher sentences in cases involving harm to whistle-blowers

24 Aug 2023, 9:47

By Belinda PhetoFirst published on News24 Corruption Watch has called for harsher sentences in cases involving whistle-blowers. The organisation was responding to the sentences handed down to the killers of Babita Deokaran, a senior health official at the Gauteng Department of Health. She was assassinated after flagging suspicious payments worth R850-million to shell companies and Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Whistle-blowers can be incentivised, but SA should move cautiously

04 Aug 2023, 11:48

South Africa should tread cautiously on its approach towards whistle-blower incentivisation, take lessons from both the countries that have made it a success and the ones that have failed, and develop its own formula for the process. This is the mixed bag of proposals shared at a recent webinar on the subject, hosted by the Read more >

CORRUPTION NEWS

Using the law to frustrate, rather than support, whistle-blowers

02 Aug 2023, 13:32

Whistle-blowers and their challenges and potential hardships have been in the news lately. Plans to amend the legislation governing their protection are in motion – though not at the urgent speed we would like to see. Civil society organisations, including Corruption Watch, have been asking for meaningful changes for years, and it is only with Read more >