With corruption and fraud endemic in South Africa, whistleblowers have played a pivotal role in bringing wrongdoing to light. Despite their invaluable role to society, in most cases their own outcomes are harrowing and devastating. Mandy Weiner’s new book The Whistleblowers shares their stories. The following is an extract.
Rebels in the north of Mali have been moving south to take up state military positions, while renegade soldiers demanded the president’s arrest.
Survey suggests that over half of South Africans have experienced corruption.
Turkish and Chinese workers put finishing touches on towering new buildings as delegations of dignitaries sweep up a flag-draped six-lane highway.
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/ 31 October 2010
Ivorians went to the polls on Sunday for their first chance in a decade to choose a president and observers said the vote was proceeding peacefully.
The <i>USS Gunston Hall</i> is a floating academy, part of an effort by the US to train local navies to combat instability in the Gulf of Guinea.
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/ 14 February 2010
West Africans are consuming more of the drugs trafficked between South America and Europe, raising the spectre of rising crime and health problems.
At rallies across Mali, a vast desert nation perched on the edge of the Sahara, the blue and white clad supporters of incumbent President Amadou Toumani Touré chanted "Takokelen!" It means "victory in one go" in Bambara, a local language. And, it seems, Malians have given the president just that.
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/ 22 October 2003
Some people argue that competition authorities in developing countries should not regulate mergers, as this diverts resources that will be better used to chase down cartels. Others argue that we should turn a blind eye to mergers that lead to domination of domestic markets, because increased scale will better equip industry to penetrate international markets.
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/ 14 October 2003
The importance of curbing anti-competitive conduct cannot be overstated. The World Bank estimates the monopoly rent extracted from developing countries alone by a few international cartels prosecuted in the 1990s totalled $24-billion a year — nearly half the development aid provided to developing countries.
At the beginning of the 1990s a dozen national competition laws existed. A decade later there were more than 90. At the World Trade Organisation talks in Cancun, key players punted the development of competition rules for world trade. In the first article in a series on competition law, David Lewis defends our trust-busting machinery.