Research

This report examines how the National Prosecuting Authority and the Public Protector have operated in a politically charged environment. The National Prosecuting Authority and the Public Protector were intended to operate in the interests of the law and good...

Problems with the Hawks’ corruption investigations are considered, and how the NPA’s Investigating Directorate will impact their work. The Hawks are supposed to be the principal body for investigating corruption in South Africa. But their performance has been lacking....

This report explores the performance of political parties in using internal systems for holding members accountable. While South Africa’s political parties have emphasised the importance of dealing with corruption in government, less is known about their systems for...

This submission to the Zondo state capture inquiry examines manipulation and interference in SA’s criminal justice agencies. This is a joint submission by Corruption Watch and the Institute for Security Studies to the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of...

To reverse Africa’s corruption trend the AU and other agencies must involve youth in the anti-corruption agenda. Young people are most exposed to and hardest hit by corruption in Africa. Corruption remains a major obstacle to the continent’s social, political and...

The monograph puts forward a more clearly defined system of classifying corruption in South Africa. This monograph investigates concerns about quantifying corruption in South Africa. There is no standardised system for classifying or analysing corruption, which makes...

This monograph explores corruption in the SAPS prior to and after democratisation in 1994. Corruption remains a serious challenge to the effectiveness and legitimacy of the South African Police Service (SAPS). This monograph explores corruption in the SAPS prior to...

As South Africa’s premier anti-corruption body dedicated to tackling graft, the SIU needs boosting. Considering its important position in South Africa’s anti-corruption machinery, the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) has been largely neglected in discussions about how...

This report explores the harnessing of South Africa’s state apparatus to serve private interests. This report explores the phenomenon of state capture – the harnessing of the state apparatus of South Africa to serve private interests. It looks specifically at the role...

The Special Investigating Unit occupies a somewhat paradoxical position in the South African anti-corruption architecture. Before March 2017, when the new investigating directorate on serious, high-profile or complex corruption was established in the National...