Follow AllAfrica News: Corruption, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/all-africa-news-corruption Mon, 20 Sep 2021 19:54:29 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN-USr052tG4HWnhpmeYcemU [SAnews.gov.za] The Technical Assistance Unit is an integral cog in the anti-corruption machinery of government and an important instrument to address corruption, fraud and unethical conduct in the Public Administration.]]> Mon, 20 Sep 2021 17:49:56 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN-USr052tG4HWnhpmeYcemU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN9RIOfZy0kE331d0VB8z-7c [Daily Maverick] Our courts will only rescind their own order in the narrowest of circumstances. It was therefore surprising that the dissenting judges in the Jacob Zuma rescission application argued that this application should succeed - despite the fact that Zuma's lawyers in effect lodged an appeal masquerading as a rescission application. No wonder, then, that reading the dissenting judgment is like watching a snake swallow its own tail.]]> Mon, 20 Sep 2021 17:28:37 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN9RIOfZy0kE331d0VB8z-7c https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN9RIOfZy0kE32nhpmeYcemU [Daily Maverick] It would seem that the fight over the Constitutional Court's judgment in Jacob Zuma's failed rescission applications is far from over because it is believed that Zuma has instructed his lawyers to petition the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights for being subject to a trial in absentia. If true, the Zuma camp is surely emboldened once more by the minority judgments of Justices Chris Jafta and Leona Theron.]]> Mon, 20 Sep 2021 17:28:23 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN9RIOfZy0kE32nhpmeYcemU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN9RIOfZy0kE31yOSYGFl6uu [SAnews.gov.za] Public beliefs about a perceived increase in corrupt activities may be as a result of increased action against corrupt officials and reports thereof.]]> Mon, 20 Sep 2021 17:21:59 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN9RIOfZy0kE31yOSYGFl6uu https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN9uyR8X4Xwk1gm0QkxGtqLL [Daily Maverick] Whistle-blowers are vital in the fight against corruption, but too few are protected under current laws, leaving them vulnerable to physical and economic threats. That needs to change, said panellists in a Maverick Citizen and Special Investigating Unit webinar.]]> Mon, 20 Sep 2021 16:18:29 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN9uyR8X4Xwk1gm0QkxGtqLL https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN9xlbQFYIoVJUQqW5gBv7mX [Daily Maverick] In April 2017, Pravin Gordhan addressed a packed audience in St George's Cathedral in Cape Town, a week after President Jacob Zuma had fired him as finance minister, a move that signalled South Africa had been well and truly captured. Gordhan urged the crowd not to give up hope and to 'join the dots' in understanding what was taking place. He became a moral authority to many - and the object of a concerted smear campaign. In this unauthorised biography, Jonathan Ancer and Chris Whitfield take a magnifying]]> Mon, 20 Sep 2021 16:12:04 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN9xlbQFYIoVJUQqW5gBv7mX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN_AIkNqTVSGhd5ZnUTwRGH7 [New Times] Rwanda Transport Development Agency (RTDA) has struggled to explain to the Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) how a contractor was overpaid more than Rwf340 million for road maintenance.]]> Mon, 20 Sep 2021 11:05:44 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN_AIkNqTVSGhd5ZnUTwRGH7 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN_AIkNqTVSGhVhGNgNo2_0q [Nyasa Times] If Malawi is to remain steady on her road to development and implementation of the MW2063 development blue print, then the country needs Accountants who are gatekeepers of resources and not conduits of fraud and corruption.]]> Mon, 20 Sep 2021 10:48:32 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN_AIkNqTVSGhVhGNgNo2_0q https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN_AIkNqTVSGhQVLTsI7B9NX [The Herald] Victor Maphosa -- COLLUSION between officers manning toll gates and corrupt motorists has seen banned kombi and pirate taxi crews sneaking through boom gates without paying, prejudicing the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) of the much-needed toll fees, The Herald can reveal.]]> Mon, 20 Sep 2021 10:37:09 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN_AIkNqTVSGhQVLTsI7B9NX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN-6tO1HMKG8pqgHTd9OkkKt [The Herald] Daniel Nemukuyu -- Investigations Editor]]> Mon, 20 Sep 2021 10:17:30 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN-6tO1HMKG8pqgHTd9OkkKt https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN-6tO1HMKG8pqJCIqJppjfU [Nation] The Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) is following in the footsteps of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) by exposing rogue and corrupt officers in the area of recruitment.]]> Mon, 20 Sep 2021 09:07:43 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN-6tO1HMKG8pqJCIqJppjfU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN-6tO1HMKG8pslTP0vptTFR [Daily Maverick] British American Tobacco is a bellwether stock on the JSE, although it has lost some of its lustre in recent years. New allegations of bribery and corruption could tarnish it further.]]> Mon, 20 Sep 2021 07:55:09 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN-6tO1HMKG8pslTP0vptTFR https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN87ytTnv7SvFCVCAQLB0bf5 [AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican Bar Association (OAM) on Friday protested at what it regarded as excessively long interrogations of some of the accused in the current trial of 19 people charged with offences in connection with the scandal of the "hidden debts".]]> Sat, 18 Sep 2021 14:09:10 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN87ytTnv7SvFCVCAQLB0bf5 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN87ytTnv7SvFIeLGixeGJZp [Premium Times] The PDP chieftain described pensioners involved in the petition against Mr Kwankwaso to the EFCC as ingrates]]> Sat, 18 Sep 2021 12:15:20 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN87ytTnv7SvFIeLGixeGJZp https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN8nB2dP2mjPCe-bbeigX9oC [Govt of SA] On 24 May 2021, together with the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), I launched the Infrastructure Built Anti-Corruption Forum (IBACF), a multi sector body set up to prevent and combat fraud and corruption in the infrastructure and/or construction sector.]]> Fri, 17 Sep 2021 15:39:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN8nB2dP2mjPCe-bbeigX9oC https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN8nB2dP2mjPCdKEpFgimKzx [AIM] Maputo -- Businessman Fabiao Mabunda, one of the 19 defendants on trial before the Maputo City court for crimes linked to the country's greatest financial scandal, known as the case of the "hidden debts", declared on Tuesday that he has no intention of repaying the money he gained, in order to compensate the Mozambican people for damage suffered in this monumentally corrupt scheme.]]> Fri, 17 Sep 2021 14:31:38 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN8nB2dP2mjPCdKEpFgimKzx https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN-6wda8Z0GA0-4sICfMfkNm [Namibia Economist] The Agricultural Bank of Namibia (AgriBank) has introduced an anonymous whistleblower platform were unethical, corrupt or fraudulent activities can be reported by staff, members of the public as well as other stakeholders.]]> Fri, 17 Sep 2021 11:04:07 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN-6wda8Z0GA0-4sICfMfkNm https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN-6wda8Z0GA0_nNuMIJyU22 [263Chat] The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission says some court rules are hampering the progress of cases, especially involving senior political figures hence the need for an urgent review.]]> Fri, 17 Sep 2021 11:01:52 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN-6wda8Z0GA0_nNuMIJyU22 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN_cymdvxFBr193hDS9njgCr [The Herald] HARARE regional magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanje has set next month as the trial date for suspended Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume, who is alleged to have corruptly allocated residential stands to his sister and his law firm's secretary.]]> Thu, 16 Sep 2021 17:37:01 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN_cymdvxFBr193hDS9njgCr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN_cymdvxFBr167VFky8BpXO [Namibian] SEVEN people have been shortlisted for the position of chief executive officer (CEO) at the corruption-tainted National Fishing Corporation of Namibia (Fishcor).]]> Thu, 16 Sep 2021 17:05:54 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/Axc65i7NvN_cymdvxFBr167VFky8BpXO