Minister Lindiwe Zulu: “Tender corruption is killing small business”
Corruption in procurement is killing small businesses, Small Business Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu said on Thursday at the Procurement Indaba in Durban.
Corruption in procurement is killing small businesses, Small Business Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu said on Thursday at the Procurement Indaba in Durban.
The presidency said that the ACTT was fully operational and had been strengthened under the leadership of the anti-corruption inter-ministerial committee led by Minister in the Presidency for Planning Monitoring and Evaluation Jeff Radebe.
Since 2004, the Partnering against Corruption Initiative at the World Economic Forum has united business leaders by working together to improve business standards and design corruption out of the system.
It hasn’t been a great year for BRICS leaders. South Africa’s Jacob Zuma is under seige for spending $20m of the public purse on his private residence. Russia’s Vladimir Putin’s regime is suddenly fragile with a plunging oil price compounding concerns over the Ukrainian invasion. And now Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff is struggling to contain growth of a massive corruption scandal at Petrobras
South Africa has improved slightly in the 2014 international corruption perception index, but still ranks poorly – and did a little better only because the research was conducted ahead of the Nkandla scandal. That together with news from Brazil last night that a lower level manager at State-owned Petrobras has volunteered to repay $100m in … Read more
South Africa improved slightly in the 2014 corruption index, but still ranks poorly – and did a little better only because the research excluded Nkandla.
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela was humbled to be selected the winner of Transparency International’s Integrity Award for 2014
Executive Mayor of Johannesburg, Parks Tau, joined Alec Hogg on CNBC Africa’s Power Lunch to discuss the arrest of 22 people for fraud, collusion and corruption. The arrests relate to over 100 cases of criminal activity that have defrauded the city’s coffers of up to R200m. The direct collusion is as far reaching as big … Read more
Can’t say we haven’t been warned bribery and corruption is on the rise in South Africa. Triggered by a President who defends $20m of taxpayer’s funds being used for a “security upgrade” on his private residence, perceptions of widespread abuse has never been higher. Now we have the first indication of how far the country … Read more
The Competition Commission’s investigation into collusive practice in the construction industry was one of the big stories of last year. South Africa’s biggest construction companies, namely WBHO, Murray & Roberts, Stefanutti, and Aveng, paid a combined R1.46bn fine when they were found guilty of colluding when submitting tenders. The fallout from the investigation was widespread, … Read more