While fighting the Covid-19 pandemic, graft and mismanagement continues unabated, leaving civil society bewildered and angry
The government has had a bewilderingly muted response to alarm bells being raised about general and Covid-19-related corruption. Angst is growing among civil society organisations and the public at large as the scourge continues amid the deadly pandemic facing South Africa.
We should not forget that the new administration promised us a clean, transparent and responsive government even before it took over two years ago. It’s a promise many of us believed in. More recently, President Cyril Ramaphosathat the government would “act very strongly against any attempts at corruption”.
Why not take it to the highly efficient National Command Council, Mr President? Why not instruct ministers to give the public regular feedback on reported concerns of corruption? It is this seemingly indifferent attitude that harkens back to the dark days of the previous administration where, as revealed by theand other investigations, law firms, auditors, banks, local and international consulting firms, politicians and government officials were all on the take.
The past two years of his administration has made it clear that speaking through both sides of the mouth is not cutting it anymore.Gauteng Premier David Makhura promised in 2014 at the Anti-Corruption Summit that he would “build an activist, responsive and clean government” that acts against corrupt government and business officials.
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