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The African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption (AUCPCC) was adopted in Maputo on 11 July 2003 to fight rampant political corruption on the African continent. It represents regional consensus on what African states should do in the areas of prevention, criminalization, international cooperation and asset recovery.
Political corruption is the use of powers by government officials or their network contacts for illegitimate private gain. Forms of corruption vary but can include bribery, lobbying, extortion, cronyism, nepotism, parochialism, patronage, influence peddling, graft, and embezzlement.
Media and civil society face restrictions and intimidation, including laws that criminalize defamation and whistleblowing. Corruption is often used to silence critics, with bribes or other forms of corruption used to buy their silence. The government has been slow to implement reforms and take action against corruption, despite promises to do ...
African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption [26] Acknowledges the damaging effects of corruption on the continent and promotes the development of mechanisms required to prevent, detect, punish and eradicate corruption and related offenses in the public and private sectors. African Youth Charter [27]
Corruption in South Africa includes the improper use of public resources for private ends, including bribery and improper favouritism. [1] Corruption was at its highest during the period of state capture under the presidency of Jacob Zuma and has remained widespread, negatively "affecting criminal justice, service provision, economic opportunity, social cohesion and political integrity" in ...
The country's civil war (1993-2005) further worsened corruption, with warlords and government officials profiteering from the conflict. [12] [13] [14] Burundi has maintained its 170th place among 180 countries in the corruption perceptions index (2020) by Transparency International, which shows that corruption is still rife in Burundi today.
In the book Olver alleges that the metro's government was controlled by a criminal syndicate closely associated with the African National Congress (ANC). The book details how the syndicate had built a sophisticated network of front companies, improper tenders, and a network of corrupt local officials that the syndicate used to steal large amounts of public money from local government.
The Enemy Within: How the ANC lost the battle against corruption (2022) is a book by Mpumelelo Mkhabela, a South African journalist and political analyst.The book is an account of how corruption entrenched its self within South Africa's governing party, the African National Congress (ANC) and the party's failed efforts to fight it.