More transparency is a crucial ingredient to fight corruption in the construction sector
Regular reporting of contract documentation will boost a new initiative to detect and prevent corruption
The poor governance of public infrastructure projects in SA has proved to be a major issue facing the administration. Some of the largest projects have clearly shown that governance failures can lead to the construction of the wrong infrastructure, poor-quality work and excessively high prices. These failures are evident from the corruption investigations around Eskom’s major coal-fired power station projects, Medupi and Kusile.
Last month public works & infrastructure minister Patricia de Lille, together with the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), launched the new Infrastructure Built Anti-Corruption Forum. This is as an initiative by the Anti-Corruption Task Team, the government and civil society, together with the built environment sector. Its primary objective is to monitor infrastructure projects more effectively and put systems in place to detect and prevent corruption. It is also designed as an industry-wide governance mechanism for the Infrastructure Investment Plan ...
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