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The 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index highlights how corruption has impacted the abilities of countries, including SA, to manage their health-care responses to Covid-19. Stock photo.Image: 123RF/viorelkurnosov

SA remains pegged below 50 points in Corruption Perception Index

Failure to move above the mark for nearly 10 years is a damning indictment of the extent of corruption and its damage: Corruption Watch Transparency International’s 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) has shown how corruption has…

FED UP: These workers, expressing their grievances outside the Port Elizabeth City Hall, were among those who joined the national one-day strike action on WednesdayImage: WERNER HILLS

‘Covid crooks must face murder, attempted murder charges’

Bay union leaders call for action on PPE corruption, jobs crisis, lack of wage increases during one-day national strike Those implicated in Covid-19 corruption should also face murder and attempted murder charges as thousands of people…

Contralesa general secretary Zolani Mkiva issued in a statement on Monday slamming corruption since the start of the lockdown.Image: Bafana Mahlangu

Covid-19 corruption is ‘tantamount to treason’: Contralesa

Traditional leaders are so dismayed by high levels of corruption, especially related to Covid-19 relief, they are seeking an urgent meeting with the ANC and other former liberation forces to discuss the issue. Amakhosi have described…

The office of the chief procurement officer has published a full list of all companies who have been awarded contracts by the government, the presidency said on Wednesday.Image: Picture: 123RF/RONNARONG THANUTHATTAPHONG

Government names every company that scored from Covid-19 tenders

President Cyril Ramaphosa believes that publishing the list of all Covid-19 related government expenditure is a demonstration of his government’s commitment to transparency. The ANC-led government has come under heavy criticism in recent…

The World Health Organisation’s chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has criticised personal protective equipment corruption in SA.Image: REUTERS

‘Any type of corruption is unacceptable’: WHO boss scolds SA for Covid-19 corruption

“It is criminal and it is murder. It has to stop.” These are the words of World Health Organisation (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus regarding personal protective equipment (PPE) corruption in SA. Speaking during a media…