Kenya has a long history of policing with excessive force, often resulting in unnecessary deaths. Recently at least six people died from police violence during the first 10 days of a dusk-to-dawn curfew. Moina Spooner, from The Conversation Africa, asked Douglas Kivoi, an expert on police reform and policy, to shed light on the situation. […]
While fighting the Covid-19 pandemic, graft and mismanagement continues unabated, leaving civil society bewildered and angry
It is usually the most vulnerable in society who are most dependent on local authorities, yet they are the ones stealing from the poor
The bidding process and black economic empowerment has backfired, resulting in deficient construction projects
The water and sanitation minister has detailed her department’s moves to combat corruption, but failed to address corruption claims her top adviser
Before Big Coal, Lephalale was a small town with little water and few jobs. Two power plants have changed it
All of KwaZulu-Natal’s Covid-19 emergency spending has been centralised under the provincial treasury after the controversial purchase of R22-million of blankets by the social development department
Women in Africa should not be viewed as having ‘special negotiating skills’. Instead, we should motivate for more women in leadership positions because of their equality as citizens
As well as its scathing findings on Mkhwebane’s investigation into Ramaphosa, the high court also made important in-principle pronouncements
In a leaked memo, AU staff claim that commission chair Moussa Faki Mahamat is destroying the continental body
We should look to the Philippines, where barangays, or neighbourhood governments, help to empower communities
It is unwise to entrust our fingerprints, biographical details and legislative authority to a syndicate of delinquent government officials
The lack of accountability and consequences for deviant behaviour by government officials allowed the misuse of taxpayers’ money
Sipho Nzuza had previously agreed to turn state witness
The term ‘corruption’ is a convenient scapegoat that leaders deploy to mask their moral failings. Instead, they should re-evaluate their personal ethics
Athandiwe Saba continues her reporting with a story about the people of Standerton who have taken it on themselves to fix things
There has been an effort by the state to expand the TVET college sector. But the reality is that the systems at many of these colleges are simply not working
For two years the man parachuted into a City of Johannesburg department dealing with the biggest and most crucial contracts required to run the city has been suspending and sidelining top officials in an apparent effort to direct the outcome of multimillion rand tenders. We track down who this man is and why it had taken so long for the city to investigate him
The president disclosed a development U-turn but the Special Economic Zones and China’s carbon intensive interests are likely to prevail
The killing of two council workers at the Amathole district municipality appears to be linked to tender fraud and corruption
Critiques of corruption must explicitly disrupt corporate globalism, imperialism, racism, authoritarianism, militarism, elitism
and sexism
The president is facing challenges at every turn, among them the economy, the state of SOEs and factionalism within the ANC. Only if Ramaphosa and his party work together will they be able to turn their declining fortunes around
A broken municipality and a four-year crisis forces residents to consider desperate choices, such as
trading sex for water
More than 5.3-million households and 21-million people don’t have clean water, despite money being spent on dams and pipelines to deliver water to 95% of the population. Sipho Kings looks at how R1.3-trillion worth of infrastructure has been subject to so much corruption and mismanagement that many places are worse off than in 1994, leaving the state with a R898-billion bill this decade
The mineral-rich earth of Zamfara State, northwest Nigeria, has provided generations of families with the means to make ends meet
Tinashe Mushakavanhu has an imaginary conversation with Dambudzo Marechera
“African corruption” is only African as regards its victims. Its perpetrators are institutions and individuals from across the globe who are willing to loot without conscience as they watch their offshore accounts grow.
Law enforcement agencies are cracking down on the high profile family of former Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos, accused of plundering revenues from the country’s vast oil wealth. During dos Santos’ 38-year rule from 1979, his offspring occupied top positions in the government and in lucrative sectors ranging from banking, telecoms and media to […]
The finance minister says despite the difficult fiscal environment, structural reforms are under way to put SA on a new growth path
Regular maintenance, zero corruption and no emergency coal procurement are the main issues
The arrest is a big statement of intent by the justice system, but his defence has already said it wants to make “representations”
Italian Environment Minister Sergio Costa blamed climate change and the "tropicalisation" of violent rainfall and strong winds