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State capture: Ramaphosa marks first year of implementation plan with report

14 Dec 2023, 10:02

The Presidency has delivered some good news, and some not so good news, on the state capture front, to end off a long and difficult year of responding to corruption. What is clear in a progress report, released in the last week of November, on the implementation of the Zondo report recommendations is that more Read more >

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Better laws to protect the electorate, that’s what Parliament needs

29 Nov 2023, 11:06

Before we get to the point where we can safely protect public resources from major crimes such as state capture, we should interrogate the South African government system as well as the country’s political culture, so that we have a broader meaning of what needs to change and how. This argument was put forward by Read more >

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State capture: civil society must bridge gap between public and govt

21 Nov 2023, 10:03

On 25 and 26 October two civil society organisations – the Public Affairs Research Institute and the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution – jointly hosted a conference to discuss government’s response to state capture and the implementation of the Zondo commission recommendations, made public last year. The event, the second of Read more >

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One year on, govt’s response to Zondo recommendations on shaky course

23 Oct 2023, 11:25

Corruption Watch is releasing three new episodes of its podcast series titled Zondo Commission Unpacked, to mark a year since President Cyril Ramaphosa announced his government’s response to the commission’s recommendations. On 23 October 2022 Ramaphosa released the 77-page plan of implementations which would be put into action – but has this happened?Listen to episode Read more >

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Public enterprises dept continues its downhill slide

17 Oct 2023, 11:35

The Auditor-General of South Africa (Agsa) is not impressed with the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE). Presenting the department’s audit outcomes for 2021/2022 to the parliamentary portfolio committee on public enterprises on 11 October, the Agsa delegation pointed out several shortcomings and weaknesses, including stagnation in terms of audit outcomes in general, and non-compliance with Read more >

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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 >

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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 >

PRESS RELEASES

Addressing corporate corruption in South Africa: The EOH experience

29 Aug 2023, 11:25

On Tuesday 29 August 2023, the National Business Initiative (NBI), Corruption Watch, and independent global affairs think tank ODI released a report named Addressing Corporate Corruption in South Africa: The EOH Experience. The launch of the report follows a webinar earlier today during which its findings were discussed by a panel of leading experts. In Read more >

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New Zondo Explorer sifts through thousands of commission documents

29 Aug 2023, 10:17

News24’s recently launched Zondo Explorer is a valuable tool that facilitates exploring the reams of documents produced during the state capture commission’s tenure. With a particular focus on the the people and organisations named in testimony, the Zondo Explorer does the tough job of wading through all the documents for a certain name. “We are Read more >