SA’s anti-corruption stagnation – ‘fixing the plane while needing to fly it’
Corruption Watch says SA has scored a “dismal 44” in Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index dropping to 70th in the world.
Corruption Watch says SA has scored a “dismal 44” in Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index dropping to 70th in the world.
The wheels of justice grind slowly. Ask the Brazilians who yesterday saw their once revered president Lula sentenced to jail many years after he left office.
While no country has a perfect score, over two-thirds of countries score below 50, including South Africa, indicating a serious corruption problem.
While President Jacob Zuma plans another outrageous cabinet reshuffle, it’s worth recalling the immortal advice of British statesman Edmund Burke: “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
Cobus de Swardt says the fight against corruption has intensified ten fold in the last five years and has become life threatening for his colleagues in certain parts of the world.
While the Pound has depreciated and growth has slowed since Brexit, Forbes Magazine still ranks the UK as one of the top places to do business.
ISS head Anton du Plessis penned this strongly worded attack on corruption from Kigali, the Rwandan capital currently hosting the WEF’s annual African regional meeting.
In scale and impact, the Zuma family’s DRC dealings make the Iceland PM’s crime almost petty.
South Africa jumped 6 places in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index for 2015, however its score on the index remained unchanged from 2014.
When Muhammadu Buhari took over as Nigeria’s president, he vowed to wipe out corruption but opposition parties now see this as a vendetta against them.