Public servants still profit from state procurement

Gary Pienaar
Senior Researcher: Governance and Public Ethics
A troubling question is increasingly asked about South Africa: At what point does corruption become endemic? When does corruption become so systematised that it becomes almost irreversibly ‘the way business is done’ – the expected norm?
The hearings on 6 July 2009 before Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) [...]

Helping Africa Save Itself

By Witney W. Schneidman
originally published in Newsweek, June 2009
Dambisa Moyo, a Zambian-born economist, lays out a brash argument in her book, DEAD AID: that the more than $1 trillion in foreign assistance given to Africa over the past 50 years is the root cause of the continent’s enduring poverty, widespread corruption, civil wars, and isolation [...]