Procurement corruption in the crosshairs
The Public Procurement Amendment Bill will be tabled in Parliament in March next year and aims to reduce the scope for looting and procurement corruption.
Raymond Zondo
Parliament’s paltry performance…kicking the can down the road
OUTA’s latest oversight report finds parliament continues to flounder in its responsibilities to hold the executive to account and properly scrutinise how taxpayers’ money is spent or in many cases wasted.
Ramaphosa ropes in anti-corruption brains trust
A newly-established council of nine experts from a diversity of fields will be advising President Cyril Ramaphosa on battling corruption in the state and private sector.
Bain & Co – still trying to gloss over the shocking facts
Bain & Company’s managing partner in SA took out a page three, full-page advert appealing for “constructive dialogue” with South Africans.
Directly electing SA’s president – a good idea until you unpack it
“Consideration be given to making the necessary constitutional amendments to ensure that the president of the country is elected directly by the people”.
SA banks kowtowed to ANC on Gupta bank account closures
Economist Dr Lumkile Mondi says he’s still “shocked and very disappointed” that CEOs of major banks bowed to political pressure and went to meetings at the ANC’s Luthuli House after they closed the Gupta’s bank accounts.
Why Zondo’s direct election idea might be wrong for SA
With respect, Chief Justice Zondo is wrong. Africa has had too many strong-men presidents; South Africa does not need one.
How a Gupta company with R16 in its bank account scored R280m
A guy who sold computers for the Gupta family was the face of a company that had R16 in its bank account days before it got a R30m bump from the taxpayer to run the Vrede dairy project. Michael Appel has more from Zondo’s latest report.
Paul O’Sullivan: The Zondo Commission missed the mark
Paul O’Sullivan spoke to BizNews founder Alec Hogg about the Zondo Commission’s investigation officially coming to an end.
Zondo Report: Bosasa’s bribes – who got what
The Zondo Report finds Bosasa engaged in industrial-scale corruption, paying hordes of government and ANC heavyweights tens of millions in cash bribes over 16 years to keep the tenders flowing. Here’s who got what.