Coherence and efficiency can only be achieved on the back of a values-based (ethics and integrity) systemic professional public service that has the right technical and managerial skills. Further, such an endeavour can only be driven from the centre of government. Read Part III of Ivan Pillay’s op-ed series with Yolisa Pikie and Sridharan Kesavan …
Growing and supporting pockets of excellence in the public service may be our best defence against the corruption that feeds off SA’s broken systems. Ivan Pillay, Yolisa Pikie and Sridharan Kesavan write about corruption and the public service in the Sunday Times. Read the article online here.
Interview with Ivan by Natasha Marrian for Business Day: Reparations have been offered to current and former Sars staff to right the wrongs of the Moyane era. But is it enough? Read it here.
In Part I, we argued that the most effective way to combat corruption is not to implement a separate anti-corruption plan, but to integrate anti-corruption measures into making our institutions functional and perform far better than they are now. Read Part II by Ivan Pillay, Sridharan Kesavan and Yolisa Pikie here.
Corruption in SA seems to have reached pandemic proportions. If that is our assumption, what is the nature of our current discourse on it? Read the op-ed by Ivan Pillay, Sridharan Kesavan, Yolisa Pikie & Tarun Kumar Sin here at the Daily Maverick. This is part I of a first paper on corruption. Part II …
Corruption and dysfunctional state a toxic cocktail (part I) Read More »
Read the op-ed by Sridharan Kesavan, Ivan Pillay, Yolisa Pikie & Tarun Kumar Sin in the Daily Maverick here.
A giant data leak from within the South African tobacco industry presents evidence of large-scale infiltration by the tobacco mafia of the South African police, justice and secret services. The documents, leaked last week by whistle blowers from within the private ‘big tobacco’ -paid research agency Forensic Security Services (FSS) and tweeted from @EspionageSA, show …
Tobacco mafia’s infiltration of South African state led to purge of good civil servants Read More »
Ivan Pillay’s article for Sunday Times, published with the newspaper’s apology after the Media Ombudsman’s verdict with regard to the smear campaign waged in 2014 and 2015. Read it online here.
Former members of the leadership of the Anti Apartheid Movement Netherlands (AABN) have spoken out in solidarity with ‘many South Africans who raise their voice against state capture and the defilement of shared ideals’. In an Open Letter to the ANC they express their ‘grave concern’ about recent investigation of SARS officials by the South …
ZAM editor Bart Luirink wonders why his former comrades in the Anti Apartheid Movement are investigated by the South African police. Read his article here.
