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2005-06-10
Reuters
South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma's once clear path to the presidency has been severely obstructed by a close aide's conviction for corruption.
2005-06-06
IOL
...Anton du Plessis of the Institute for Security Studies said the verdict would have an impact on not only the arms deal, but the Scorpions and the way it had approached any possible further investigations into the arms deal and any politically charged corruption cases.
News24
Public sector corruption costs South Africa between R50 and R150bn per year, an anti-corruption expert told the next leg of the Schabir Shaik case on Friday. Hennie van Vuuren, from the Institute for Security Studies was called by the state to testify in aggravation of sentence...
2005-06-03
Business Day
...Anton du Plessis, of the Institute for Security Studies, says the argument - first put forward by former justice minister Penuell Maduna and former prosecutions chief Bulelani Ngcuka - that there is a prima facie case against Zuma, but not evidence strong enough to charge him, has collapsed because of Shaik's conviction.
Guardian Unlimited
In the third part of a series on Africa, Guardian writers examine the G8 summit's focus on good governance.
The Independent
A court has found Deputy President Jacob Zuma's former financial adviser guilty of corruption and fraud, increasing pressure on the man who had been seen as the country's next leader.
The decision immediately revived opposition calls yesterday for President Thabo Mbeki to fire his deputy, and for parliament to reopen an inquiry into a multibillion-dollar arms deal at the centre of the case.
News24
...Sentencing was due to start on Friday with Downer, who will be calling Hennie van Vuuren, a researcher with the Institute for Security Studies, as a witness in aggravation of sentence.
Mail & Guardian
South Africa's largest gold-miner, AngloGold Ashanti, "messed up" when its employees in a north-eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) paid about $9 000 (R61 800) in bribes to the Nationalist and Integrationist Front (FNI), the group's CEO, Bobby Godsell, said on Wednesday.
Mail & Guardian...Deputy President Jacob Zuma must have been aware of bribes sought by Schabir Shaik on his behalf, Durban High Court Judge Hillary Squires said on Thursday in convicting Shaik of fraud and corruption...
...He said Zuma was aware of and used encoded language designed to clinch the bribery deal with French arms company Thomson-CSF -- in turn for which Thomson was to receive protection from the probe into South Africa's multibillion-rand arms deal, in which it was awarded a tender.
2005-06-02
News24Businessman Schabir Shaik was convicted in the Durban High Court on Thursday on two counts of corruption and one of fraud relating to alleged irregular financial dealings with deputy president Jacob Zuma.
BBCA South African judge has said there is 'overwhelming evidence' of corruption against the financial adviser of Deputy President Jacob Zuma.
NigeriaworldRecently, the United States National Intelligence Council in a report entitled 'Mapping Sub-Saharan Africa's Future' predicted 'outright collapse of Nigeria' as a nation state within the next 15 years.
Washington PostElected to a second term in 2003, Nigeria's president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has promised to clean up corruption. He has shown some signs of seriousness: Investigations have triggered the sacking of two government ministers, the arrest of a former police chief and the resignation of the Senate president. But the key test of Mr. Obasanjo's commitment is oil. Nigeria pumps 3 percent of the world's crude, and oil is the source of the cronyism that has suffocated Nigerian development since independence.
The ScotsmanSouth Africa was teetering last night on the brink of its biggest political crisis since the end of apartheid, when a judge said there was 'overwhelming' evidence of a corrupt relationship between a businessman and the man tipped to become the next president.
The GuardianIt has got a sad record of disease, brutality and corruption, and fewer inhabitants than Sheffield. But Equatorial Guinea is one of the key targets of the west's new 'scramble for Africa'.
2005-06-01
Mail & GuardianMembers of Parliament found guilty of wrongdoing in Parliament's so-called Travelgate scandal will be fired, the African National Congress said on Monday.
Harold Doan & AssocA new report, The National Integrity Systems TI Country Report - Malawi 2004 has been published today by Transparency International (TI), the leading global non-governmental organisation devoted to combating corruption. The TI study, carried out between 2003 and 2004, assesses the effectiveness of the Malawian National Integrity System (NIS). The NIS is comprised of the key institutions that contribute to the fight against corruption in a country.
ReutersA South African judge began giving his judgement on Tuesday in a high-profile graft case that many say could decide whether Deputy President Jacob Zuma succeeds Thabo Mbeki as president in 2009.
Business DayThree crucial 'interventions' by Deputy President Jacob Zuma into the business affairs of fraud and corruption accused Schabir Shaik came under scrutiny on the first day of Judge Hillary Squires' judgment in the Durban High Court yesterday.
2005-05-30
allAfrica.comThe comments made by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Chalwe Mchenga regarding the fight against corruption are a shocking, if not sad, reflection of the state of our country's fight against corruption.
Episcopal News ServiceNigeria's Anglican and Roman Catholic churches have expressed dire concern about the endemic nature of corruption which has led to Nigeria being rated the third most corrupt country in the world by German-based Transparency International (TI).
GhanawebI will open the discourse with the definition of bribery and corruption and the root cause of it in Ghana and other African countries. According to Chambers Concise Dictionary (2004), corruption is the process of corrupting or condition of being corrupt OR dishonesty. For the benefit of this commentary,I will dwell on the two definitions.
allAfrica.comPresident Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday in Paris said foreigners who are victims of fraud and corrupt practices in Nigeria are usually accomplices in these criminal acts.
Seattle TimesResidents of this East African nation had just voted out a corruption-riddled ruling party and replaced it with an opposition leader who promised to clean up government graft, boost the economy and approve a new constitution in his first 100 days.
2005-05-27
ReutersSouth Africa is considering new measures to combat corruption and to check the abuse of power by officials, President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday.
Sunday TimesDirectors General of State departments in South Africa will probe the abuse of State power by members of the cabinet who were using this power 'to accumulate personal wealth', says South African President Thabo Mbeki.
2005-05-25
Patriot NewsLiberia's 14-year civil war ended in 2003 with the departure of Charles Taylor and the creation of a transitional government to lead the country to elections later this year. But widespread allegations of corruption have tarnished the image of the caretaker body and have led to an investigation by the West African regional bloc ECOWAS.
ReutersA Nigerian lawyer accused President Olusegun Obasanjo of corruption and abuse of power in a lawsuit on Monday for raising 4 billion naira towards building a personal library, court papers showed.
allAfrica.comEven as the dust over alleged bribe-for-gas contracts involving a unit of oil service firm, Halliburton, is yet to settle, another US oil firm, Willbros, has opened another scandal of improper payments of money allegedly to some Nigerian government officials to win contracts.
allAfrica.comA donor sanctioned corruption investigation at the borders and highways from Uganda to DR Congo has kicked off in Kigali.
2005-05-23
Mail & GuardianCorruption is the biggest hurdle in the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) transition to its first democratic elections since independence in 1960. The legacy of Mobutu Sese Seko, epitomising African klepto-cracy remains disturbingly alive.
ReutersZimbabwe's central bank chief, Gideon Gono, has been dragged into a legal case in which former Finance Minister Chris Kuruneri is charged with breaking the country's foreign exchange laws.
Financial GazetteThe announcement that President Robert Mugabe is soon to swear in members of an anti-corruption commission has failed to arouse any excitement in me since it was made last weekend.
allAfrica.comThe Government yesterday rubbished a UN report that has painted Kenya negatively on corruption and crime rate.
News24The Democratic Alliance said on Sunday it would be filing requests under the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) to obtain details about the transactions and the individuals involved in the ANC's alleged 'Oil-for-Votes scandal' prior to the 2004 general election.
2005-05-20
Mail & Guardian Investigation into covert party funding has revealed how R11-million of public money was diverted to African National Congress coffers ahead of the 2004 elections. In what may be the biggest political funding scandal since 1994, the M&G has established that South Africa's state oil company, PetroSA, irregularly paid R15-million to Imvume Management -- a company closely tied to the ANC.
Global PoliticianThe Department of Home Affairs has appealed to the public to be 'alert to all forms of corruption' at the Cape Town Refugee Reception Office. This follows a Cape Times investigation that found 'agents' working outside the refugee office, but in co-operation with officials inside, were offering refugees an asylum-seeker's permit in exchange for R250 to R350.
2005-05-18
Cape TimesWhile he was Western Cape premier, Peter Marais wrote Italian billionaire Count Riccardo Agusta a letter giving him the banking details of the New National Party (NNP) and thanking him "in anticipation of any donation" to party funds.
Mail & GuardianMalawi President Bingu wa Mutharika fired Education Minister Yusuf Mwawa only hours after the minister's arrest on Tuesday on corruption charges. Mwawa was the first close ally of the president to be arrested in an anti-corruption drive. He is accused of using public funds to pay for his wedding reception.
New Vision...The study found that, "Museveni's bid for a third term has split the Movement... raised the prospect for political violence... and significantly increased the impetus for corruption as the campaigns to change the constitution and reelect the President will require large sums of money."
allAfrica.comChairman of Transparency International (TI), Mr. Peter Eigen, has recommended that multi-national companies involved in bribing government officials and decision-makers to influence business transactions should be blacklisted and prosecuted.
2005-05-17
Sunday TimesZimbabwe central bank governor Gideon Gono is expected to testify at the corruption trial of the country's former finance minister, Chris Kuruneri, which starts tomorrow.
Ghanaweb...Mr. Kufour should be commended for taken a bold step to look in the scandal at the Energy commission involving the Chairman and the Executive Secretary.
Reuters...Obiang is an authoritarian ruler who enjoys one of the least enviable reputations in the world for corruption, human rights abuse and the failure to pass on the benefits of his country's oil boom to his own people.
2005-05-16
ReutersNigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo sacked two senior judges accused of taking a 27 million naira in bribes as the government's crackdown on graft widened to the judiciary.
GhanawebIn major public fora, international conferences, symposia, and also throughout my writings I have identified corruption, mismanagement and bad governance as major problems inhibiting African development.
2005-05-13
Mail & GuardianA top Scorpions official, Jeffrey Ledwaba, one of three czars heading the elite police unit, is being investigated in connection with allegations of the plundering of hundreds of thousands of rands from the informers fund. Ledwaba was put on "special leave" last week on the instruction of the National Director of Public Prosecutions, Vusi Pikoli.
2005-05-12
ReliefWebDuring two days of unusually frank and open dialogue between senior officials of Liberia's transitional government and the war-torn West African country's partners, which ended here today, fighting corruption emerged as a central theme.
Cape TimesThe Democratic Alliance (DA) has lodged complaints of corruption, fraud or theft with Plettenberg Bay police against the town's municipal manager, George Seitisho, for allegedly abusing his municipal credit card to buy personal items worth R89 000 and making cash withdrawals of R52 000.
Cape TimesAccording to a national government survey of municipalities, the City of Cape Town is prone to corruption and also suffers from a lack of capacity. As a result, the city was rated by the survey as a "struggling municipality", and deemed in need of assistance.
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