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Article: Corrupt public servants still profit handsomely from the state tender process.(News)
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- Cape Times (South Africa)
- Article date:
- July 30, 2009
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BYLINE: GARY PIENAAR
At what point could corruption become endemic in South Africa? When might it become so systematised that it becomes almost irreversibly "the way business is done"?
Recent hearings before Parliament's Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) provide a profoundly disturbing response. The evidence of persistent and widespread failure by government departments to implement reasonably clear ethics standards and procedures suggests there is little comfort from that quarter.
Scopa heard that many government departments still lack the systems and skills to enforce the legal and ethical standards applicable to public servants. ...