As South Africans face up to the challenge of the next wave of the Covid pandemic, accompanying waves of corruption are once again sweeping the country, with more PPE scandals coming to light, and funds intended to alleviate suffering and poverty vaporising into the pockets of a corrupt few. It begs the question: ‘What, if anything, can counter corruption in our country?’ Paul Hoffman, member of anti-corruption organisation Accountability Now and author of Countering the Corrupt, believes it is still possible to stop the culture of corruption from becoming inevitably entrenched in our society, through several key steps, starting with the establishment of an integrity commission. 1. An Integrity Commission
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There is one area of reform that is critical to the future trajectory of the country, its economy and the wellbeing of all who dwell in this lovely land. Reform is most urgently needed in the Jacob Zuma-blighted criminal justice administration in our nascent constitutional democracy, a new form of government for South Africa embraced by the majority of voters in 1994.
The current criminal justice administration, by the admission of its leadership, has been hollowed out, compromised, filled with “saboteurs” and rendered dysfunctional due to the ravages of the Zuma-era State Capture project. The innards of that project are currently being revealed in detail and shock by the evidence meticulously presented before the State Capture Commission presided over by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo.