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Today the United States celebrates its “Freedom of Information Day”. It is supposed to provide an occasion to focus on issues of public access to information and transparency in the US government. Given the extensive capacity of United States…
For Immediate Release: Why, after more than two decades of democracy in South Africa, is the apartheid archive still kept under lock and key? Secrecy is a key ingredient in the abuse of power and its legacy needs to be…
The Public Protector, Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane, released a controversial report on 19 June 2017 detailing the failure of the South African Government to implement the CIEX report and recover funds from ABSA. The report also calls on Parliament to amend…
[row cols_nr=”2″][col size=”6″] [/col][col size=”6″] About the book: South Africa remains a deeply unequal society battling the legacy of apartheid and the persistence of corrupt networks that seek to ‘capture’ its democratically elected leaders. As Hennie van Vuuren of Open…
News broke last Friday that the Public Protector’s leaked report into the Bankorp/Absa “lifeboat” scandal dating back to the dying years of apartheid rule called for Absa to repay over R2-billion to the South African fiscus. The public response was…
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@MikeMarchant13 @hennievvuuren @NPA_Prosecutes Well done to @TreasuryRSA.
It really shows up @UCT_news who allow Bain to recruit on campus.
Emarrassing.
Despite repeated attempts to ask ethics teacher and Council member @JacquesR, the VC and @e_transitions to explain their policy, they remain quiet.
@OpenSecretsZA Ban the directors as well… What’s stopping these folk from just doing it again under a different entity? If corruption and fraud is confirmed - ban, jail, fine them.
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