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The DA in the Eastern Cape believes internal entities within the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality, tasked with combating corruption, have fallen short in their duties, with the party writing to the premier’s office asking for a commission of inquiry into allegations of state capture.

The metro has racked up the highest accumulated amount of unauthorised, fruitless, irregular and wasteful expenditure of any municipality since 1994.

How corruption should be best combatted in South Africa is a complex matter which requires considerable work, reflection and debate.

Concerns have been raised about whether commission-related cases will go anywhere.

The NDPP has shown surprising support for the move to establish ‘stopgap’ crime-fighting unit, the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption.

The #UniteBehind protesters, on a 72-hour fast for accountability and for Parliament to act on State Capture, were watched by police.

During a webinar on Wednesday, Professor Geo Quinot unpacked some of the findings from the report. Public entities are allowed to deviate from procurement procedures set under limited circumstances and an entity deviating from the prescribed procedures does not in itself mean something is wrong...

It is important to say at this point that I reject the idea that the malaise is entirely due to the poor state of public service provision. What I am saying is that the state of our public services is indicative of – it points to – the deeper causality of our malaise. 

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