With headlines almost daily on government financial scandals and backhanders for civil servants increasingly common, no-one is under any illusion that corruption is a major blight on South Africa’s business and investment landscape. In this article, Paul Hoffman...
Cadre Deployment in the Public Administration is illegal
The need for transformation of outmoded deployment practices in the public administration must be taken seriously by the authors of the pervasiveness of cadre deployment in state owned enterprises (think Brian Molefe at Eskom) and the public administration (think...
Service delivery and corruption
It is reported in the media that the Secretary General of the African National Congress, Gwede Mantashe, told a town hall meeting in Evaton on 3 January, 2017 that: “Corruption is not curing (sic). This practice is stealing. If it is real, abantu must be arrested....
A Common Thread
Integrity and accountability are the common thread that joins together all notables who are paid tribute by the Daily Maverick in its Person of the Year awards. Not least because of their sterling efforts to dodge the “junk status” bullet, the Minister of Finance, his...
Activism Against Corruption conference Declaration of 24th November 2016
A. Conference takes note of the resolutions passed by the Cape Town Combating Corruption Conference in November 2015, B. Conference acknowledges that generating the political will to tackle the menacing scourge of corruption effectively is vital to the success of...
Scorpions scrapping comes back to sting a looted nation
SOME commentators have taken to likening President Jacob Zuma to Humpty Dumpty after his great fall. Their comments may have been elicited by a yolk joke Lindiwe Sisulu slipped into her recent diatribe on racism, or by some subliminal association related to the shape...
We need an Integrity Commission… now
After nearly two months of analysis and introspection by the African National Congress concerning its setbacks in the municipal elections of August 3, 2016, its National Executive Committee has come up with a three-point plan to win back electoral support. Accelerated...
IFAISA Anti-corruption Commission Bill, 2012
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IFAISA Constitutional Amendment to Establish an Anti-corruption Commission
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IFAISA Submission Regarding the SA Police Service Amendment Bill, 2012
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South Africa needs Integrity Commission
The nation proceeds at its peril towards an economic and political precipice of pandemic proportions if it continues to pretend that the ship of state will somehow right itself automatically and sail serenely away from that precipice. People of goodwill must take...
Letter to Rt Hon David Cameron MP and President Barack Obama re the international anti-corruption initiative of the US and UK
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An Integrity Commission for South Africa
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IFAISA submissions to the Constitutional Review Committee of Parliament
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Time to talk integrity: Accountability Now
Accountability Now director Paul Hoffman considers what President Jacob Zuma should say in his State of the Nation address on February 11 28 January 2016 -The State of the Nation Address (SONA) is one of the highlights of the annual political calendar. The President,...


