Organisations give antigraft paper indifferent reception
No mention on party political funding while Justice Department employees doing business with the state fail to declare their interests in line with guidelines
The government’s new national anticorruption strategy discussion paper has received a lukewarm reception, with civil society organisations saying the document is silent on political party funding.Minister in the Presidency for Performance Monitoring and Evaluation Jeff Radebe is leading the anticorruption task team responsible for bringing the document to life.The Helen Suzman Foundation and Corruption Watch said on Monday the Public Finance Management Act, Treasury regulations, the Special Investigating Unit and the Asset Forfeiture Unit, among others, were sufficient in combating or preventing corruption. The missing ingredient, they said, was political will.The government, according to the discussion document, wants 120 convictions for persons involved in high-priority corruption cases — involving at least R5m — by 2019.The paper gives a vague overview of party funding."There is little data on corruption in funding political parties… The extent to which this happens… is not clear...
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