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2005-04-15
Newly formed audit body urged to help fight corruption
President Thabo Mbeki says the newly formed African Organisation of English
Speaking Supreme Audit Institution (Afrosai) could play a major role in
ensuring that fraud and the misuse of public funds within governments is
eradicated.
Link: http://www.sabcnews.com/south_africa/general/0,2172,102090,00.html
allAfrica.comSince its assumption of office in May 1999, one of the major challenges the Olusegun Obasanjo administration has had to contend with is corruption, which cuts across the entire spectrum of the Nigerian society. Not only had the malaise become pervasive, it had eaten deep into the moral fabric of the society to the extent of being taken as routine habit.
The StandardFormer Ethics and Governance Permanent Secretary John Githongo has finally broken his silence to talk about grand corruption. Speaking in Germany, Githongo told the world that Africa's biggest let-down in the war against corruption was 'its sense of respect and deference to the elderly��.
allAfrica.comFormer Governance and Ethics permanent secretary John Githongo has been picked as one of Africa's most distinguished corruption fighters.
allAfrica.comThe Mozambican public prosecutor's office intends to draw up a provisional charge sheet against businessman Nyimpine Chissano, oldest son of former President Joaquim Chissano, in connection with the November 2000 murder of the country's top investigative journalist, Carlos Cardoso, reports Thursday's issue of the weekly paper 'Zambeze'.
Mail & GuardianThe Scorpions are probing whether part of a R100-million sweetener paid to a Saudi Arabian agent by arms manufacturer Denel has flowed back to South Africa in the form of kickbacks. Possible recipients included in the inquiry are former directors and officials of Denel, the late defence minister Joe Modise, the African National Congress, and well-known ANC fund-raiser and a confidant of Nelson Mandela, Yusuf Surtee.
2005-04-14
MercuryOne of the most important resolutions of the recent anti-corruption summit was that post-employment restrictions be enacted through legislation, writes Judith February.
News24International donors on Tuesday refused to renew funding to Kenya and pressed the government to intensify its war on corruption and implement delayed reforms, despite spirited pleas from the east African nation.
allAfrica.comThe Church yesterday termed as hypocritical the donor community's onslaught against the Government over corruption. Catholic and Anglican bishops from the African region questioned the donors' silence over looted African wealth stashed in western countries.
2005-04-13
BBC NewsNigeria's former education minister and six others have been charged with fraud in President Olusegun Obasanjo's ongoing campaign against corruption.
The StandardThe Government yesterday agreed to a long list of conditions it must meet in the next one year before it can get more money from donors.
2005-04-12
Cape TimesThe arrest of eight civil servants in Mthatha yesterday morning appears to mark the beginning of a countrywide crackdown on corruption in the administration of social grants. Those arrested were among the 41 000 government employees who have allegedly defrauded the state of up to R1.5 billion.
Mail & GuardianThe Eastern Cape social development department is investigating 2 000 public servants thought to be cheating the state out of R24-million in welfare grants.
2005-04-11
Sunday Times
Companies found guilty of offences relating to state tenders are set to be named and shamed in a new public register as part of a bid to further close the net on white-collar criminals.
In addition to identifying guilty companies, nonexecutive directors and shareholders could also be listed if they "knowingly" participated in corrupt dealings or "ought reasonably to have known" that a tender bid was fraudulent. The listed information is intended to remain in the register for up to 20 years.
IOLMassive corruption is behind current hardships in Ghana, said former President Jerry Rawlings, who took power in a revolt and ruled for two decades, but he denied he wanted a return to office.
Business DayThe size and funding of the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) is to be increased substantially, after a key agreement was reached with the social development department to track down corruption and fraud in the department.
XinhuaThe Kenyan government is expected to be taken to task by the country's development partners on graft and the slow pace of reform on Monday, before they decide whether to pledge funds to rebuild the economy.
VanguardAmid the controversy generated by President Olusegun Obasanjo's war on corruption, two of the nation's legal icons - Justice Kayode Eso and Chief Gani Fawehinmi - literally clashed on the president's handling of the crusade against graft in the country.
ReutersZambia's ruling party has suspended a former vice president for accusing President Levy Mwanawasa of corruption, in an apparent bid to shore up the leader's position against a potential rival.
Mail & GuardianThe South African National Civics Organisation (Sanco) received millions of rands from Swedish arms manufacturers who were bidding for the controversial multibillion-rand arms deal.
Global PoliticianThe Western press casts him in the role of an African Saddam Hussein. Neighboring leaders supported his policies, but then succumbed to diplomacy and world opinion and, with a few notable exceptions, shunned him. The opposition and its mouthpieces accuse him - justly - of brutal disregard for human, civil, and political rights and of undermining the rule of law. All he wants, insists Comrade - his official party title - Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe is to right an ancient wrong by returning land, expropriated by white settlers, to its rightful black owners.
allAfrica.comMore grease to President Obasanjo's elbows but the current Hot Pursuit phase of the President's anti-corruption campaign appear to derive its rationality from the conclusive testament on militarism by the German Philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche.
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