1.      

Mr Thabo Mbeki

How is it that in the midst of the wholesale transformation of ordinary life in South Africa, the dark shadows of the past continue to cast a gloomy spell on our future. Are we a nation doomed to failure in matters moral and issues ethical? Perhaps we should take heart that corruption is not entirely new in government. If sin is as old as humankind, so too is corruption as old as government itself.

10 November 1998

2.      

Mr N M Phosa -Premier of Mpumalanga

Punishment for corruption should also be much more severe and adequate jail sentences for those found guilty should be considered. We cannot allow criminals to take the food from the mouths of the poor any longer. We need to create a public service filled with people who are convinced that they must selflessly serve the people and not enrich themselves.

10 November 1998

3.      

Mr Thabo Mbeki

If I am correct in what I have said, then we must strive to find the answer to the question - what must we all do to rebuild a system of morality in our country, a generally accepted value system that is inimical to actions that are ethically wrong! Fundamentally to create a climate in our country hostile to crime,

including crimes of corrupt practice within both the public and private sectors, we surely must do whatever is necessary to effect that RDP of the soul

14 April 1999

4.      

Ms LN Sisulu -Minister For Intelligence Services,

Our commitment in assisting government in fighting corruption is motivated by the fact that the preservation of the integrity of the state is our core function. We are therefore aware that if we do not use our resources and skills to fight this scourge, we would by omission be facilitating the erosion of the capacity of the state. It is in this context that the Services have helped the South African Revenue Services (SARS) to conduct investigative work, which contributed to the prevention of the loss of millions of Rands to the state in the form of unpaid revenue.

I4 June 2001

5.      

Mr B N Fihla - Chairperson of Correctional Services Portfolio Committee

The Jali Commission is underway to investigate corruption, maladministration, violence and intimidation in nine Management Areas and there is a need to expand its scope operations and terms of reference. The first two Interim Reports on the Durban-Westville Prison have been tabled and the recommendations will be handled internally and some referred to investigative and prosecutorial authorities for criminal investigation.

The DCS response must result in a sustainable and clean investigative and disciplinary capacity within the Department. In the previous financial year up to March 2002, 236 reports on corruption through the Hotline for Whistle Blowing in DCS were received. As a result 23 officials have been dismissed, 76 officials disciplined and 14 officials criminally convicted

4 June 2002

6.      

Stan Sangweni -Public Service Commission chairman

Speaking at the launch, Public Service Commission chairman Stan Sangweni said the hotline would ensure that all cases of corruption were reported centrally and re-directed to the relevant departments.

"This will hopefully remove duplication by investigating authorities, thus freeing up resources for better use on other priorities", Sangweni said.

20 December 2004

7.      

Mrs E.M Coleman - MEC for Finance

With this budget, we emphasise our commitment to governance through

improving service delivery, eradicating corruption, creating safety for our

communities, developing our social security networks and growing the

economy

22 February 2006

8.      

Thabo Mbeki

The theme that informs the work of this conference, 'fighting corruption and safeguarding integrity,' correctly presumes our ability as political leaders, business leaders, civil society, public intellectuals and academics, and others, to identify the root causes of corruption and accordingly work out the most effective ways and means to combat it.

2 April 2007

9.      

Edna Molewa -North West Premier

 “People must also have trust and confidence in the law enforcement agencies. We can effectively use these agencies to root-out corruption without fear or favour so that we can create a society free from this scourge”

10 December 2007

10.  

Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi - Public Service and Administration

“Government, business, civil society and political parties also have a role to play in fighting corruption including within their own ranks”, Minister Moleketi said.

She said ordinary people should also be at the forefront of fighting the scourge in an effort to safeguard the South Africa's young democracy.

10 December 2007

11.  

Collen Msibi -
Spokesperson for the Ministry of Transport

 “This anti-corruption initiative with the SIU was started in 2005. The hope is that by removing unlicensed drivers from the roads we can cut down on road deaths, and protect our law abiding citizens, to date, more than 1 269 private individuals and 82 corrupt officials have been arrested.,” said Collen Msibi, spokesperson for the Ministry of Transport.


 

27 November 2008

12.  

Paul Mashatile -Gauteng Premier

Gauteng Premier Paul Mashatile launched a new crime-fighting strategy in Johannesburg. The Gauteng Aggravated Robbery Strategy (GARS) is based on four pillars - to improve the quality of policing, mobilise the community, prevent crime, and ensure an effective criminal justice system.

"The long term effect of the strategy is that Gauteng should be a safe place ... there must be no place for criminals to hide," Mashatile said

4 December 2008

13.  

Lindiwe Sisulu -Minister of Housing

The minister added that there is still a lot of work to be done and the challenges are huge, among them quality, fraud and corruption in the housing chain as well as challenges posed by the current difficult economic conditions.

18 December 2008

14.  

Mvume Dandala -COPE Presidential Candidate

"When the Mbeki government took steps against then deputy president Jacob Zuma the country felt that at least there was moral commitment to give space to people to address allegations of corruption, firmly speedily and transparently."

12 March 2009

15.  

Anwa Dramat -Head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation

"I commit myself to work for all South Africans to ensure that our country finally eradicates the scourge of fraud, corruption and organised crime," Dramat said.

22 May 2009

16.  

Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma -Home Affairs Minister

"We can no longer be sure whether the person in possession of a South African passport is 100% South African," As part of the clean-up campaign, she said there was a need to minimise late birth registration

26 May 2009

17.  

President Jacob Zuma

President Jacob Zuma indicated that particular attention, would be paid to combating corruption and fraud in procurement and tender processes. Zuma also highlighted the need for a clampdown on corrupt practices relating to applications for drivers licenses, social grants and identity documents, as well as the theft of police case dockets.

3 June 2009

18.  

Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma -Minister of Home Affairs

We are going to strengthen the anti-corruption unit (integrity unit). More effective and efficient measures need to be employed if we are to make a difference. For us to succeed it will have to be a national effort. Security companies, members of business, members of parliament and more importantly the public has to assist both in alerting us to the culprits and also resisting the temptation.

26 June 2009

19.  

Mr Sexwale - Minister of Human Settlements

Let me now turn to the question of corruption. This remains a major challenge across the housing delivery environment. To ensure we identify and act against criminals, we have strengthened our partnership with the Special Investigations Unit and taken stern action against offenders.

 To date, a total of 772 public servants have been charged, of whom 554 have been convicted. More than 1 600 acknowledgments of debt have been signed in respect of non-qualifying government employees with a total value of R19.8m, and millions have already been collected by the SIU from non-qualifying illegal beneficiaries.

 The department has signed a further Service Level Agreement with the SIU mandating them to investigate fraud, corruption and maladministration in low-income housing contracts. This is the focus for the current financial year, and will enable the department to understand the type of abuse giving rise to blocked projects and allow us to improve our systems and processes while getting rid of corrupt officials and contractors.

 Much of this anti-corruption drive was spearheaded by the last Minister of Housing, and we commend her and Willie Hofmeyer's team in the SIU for their endeavours to clean up the system. We will remain seized with this endeavour.

30/06/2009

20.  

John Gunda -MP in the NCOP

Instead, we should work tooth and nail to ensure that government at the municipal level is not only free of mismanagement and corruption, but also delivers services efficiently and speedily.

30 June 2009

21.  

Mr. T.M Manyoni – MEC for Free State Provincial Department of Police, Roads and Transport

We are pleased to announce that the provincial fight against corruption in the Free State public service will be located within the Department of Police, Roads and Transport effectively from this financial year.

The focus of our provincial anti-corruption drive will be on the transparent adjudication of tenders as well as efforts to enforce stronger accountability of the public servants involved in the tendering process.

23^rd July 2009

22.  

Masenyani Richard Baloyi -Minister for Public Service and Administration

Despite the fact that corruption in the eyes of many of our people appears to be deeply entrenched in the system and that it sometimes seems inevitable, we need to fight on and improve our efforts to tackle this problem. It is our duty to do so if we are to remain true to President Jacob Zuma’s call to hold ourselves to the highest standard of service, probity and integrity. We must raise a hand, raise a finger! Do anything, but we must never allow corruption to undermine our hard-won gains

30 July 2009

23.  

Ms Noxolo Kiviet - Eastern Cape Premier

On behalf of the Eastern Cape provincial government I further wish to express our unwavering commitment to uprooting corruption in all structures and systems of government. I am indeed honoured to be part of this momentous occasion and to co-host this brilliant initiative, the Anti-Corruption Learning Network.

30 July 2009

24.  

Masenyani Richard Baloyi -Minister For Public Service And Administration  -

I am pleased to be here with you as we discuss the extremely vexing but important issue of our fight against corruption

A well-known and reputable newspaper reported on what it alleged was “grand whole wholesale corruption” in the tendering processes of the public service. With a screaming banner headline:

Despite the fact that corruption – in the eyes of many of our people – appears to be deeply entrenched in the system and that it sometimes seems inevitable, we need to fight on and improve our efforts to tackle this problem

30 July 2009

25.  

Bheki Cele -National Police Commissioner

There are pockets of excellence in policing in the Republic of South Africa and there are areas that really need to be addressed in a very serious form," he said in an interview.

"The pools of ugliness will be the number of police who are arrested because they are corrupt. Once this organisation is well-oiled, I can assure you criminals will begin to run. You can't have a weak organisation and expect it to give you the best results," Cele said.

21 August 2009

26.  

Tokyo Sexwale - Minister of Human Settlements

Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale has promised to act after Scopa found that officials had left houses in the N2 Gateway Project in disrepair.

10 September 2009

27.  

Vusi Mkhize -Home Affairs Deputy Director-General

The influence of criminal syndicates was a long-standing problem that the department was doing everything it could to root out, Mkhize said. Society in general was suffering from moral decay and a "lack of concern about doing work honestly with integrity".

15 September 2009

28.  

Bheki Cele -National Police Commissioner

Police were dealing with corruption and criminals found within their own ranks, National Police Commissioner Bheki Cele said

Cele said there was corruption everywhere and "even Jesus Christ found one among the twelve".

"The major question is, what do you do when you find them? So much said about the corruption of police and nothing said about what it is being done,"

The country's prisons were overflowing, he said, and among those prisoners were many corrupt policemen against whom action had been taken

15 September 2009

29.  

Helen Zille - DA Leader

“Corruption is like cancer. It attacks the healthy working of the economy; it spreads insidiously; and eventually it kills economic activity. Corrupt officials, like cancer cells, benefit themselves but harm all around them. Countries have been ruined by corruption.

South Africa has a huge problem with corruption which, if unchecked, will undermine our economy and jeopardise our national welfare”.

02 October 2009

30.  

Mavuso Msimang -Home Affairs Department, Director General

"Corruption is a challenge. About 420 officials are on suspension or have been dismissed for performing undesirable activities," he told reporters at the National Press Club in Pretoria.
A new IT system had been put in place in a bid to stop this. The system was able to identify and trace which officials were issuing documents.

8 October 2009

31.  

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu

Tutu praised South Africans for remaining optimistic about the future but said many problems remained.

“Poverty, unemployment, corruption and not to allow people who are in public office to think they are little boys, they are not little boys; they are representatives of the people.”

8 October 2009

32.  

Kgalema Motlanthe -  vice-president,

The country’s vice-president, Kgalema Motlanthe, admits that at every level of government the scourge is “far worse than anyone imagines”.

15 October 2009

33.  

Pravin Gordhan -Minister of Finance

Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan in his Medium Term Budget Policy Statement expressed concern about government tenders that were tainted by corruption."

27 October 2009

34.  

Zwelinzima Vavi  - General Secretary of the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu)

The future of the country will remain in jeopardy unless efforts are made to halt corruption, Zwelinzima Vavi, general secretary of the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu), said on Friday."Cosatu has for many years been concerned about corruption and we will continue to be concerned until we finally put an end to it," he told a Business Unity SA anti-corruption forum in Sandton, Johannesburg.

30 October 2009

35.  

Gwede Mantashe -ANC Secretary General

Gwede Mantashe ANC secretary general said, “if we don't act against corruption the ANC will move only one way and that is down”. "In fact corruption is an insult to all our heroes and heroines," he said

30 October 2009

36.  

Mr Andries Nel, MP - Deputy Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development

I wish to emphasize that what I will be conveying here today represents the views of a collective that has since the dawn of our democracy recognised the corrosive effects of corruption and expressed its determination to fight both the effects as well as causes of corruption in order to ensure that they do not derail us from achieving the objective of creating a united, non-racial, non-sexist, democratic and prosperous society.

30 October 2009

37.  

President Jacob Zuma

President Zuma says he is committed to rooting out corruption, and in fact he has made some progress in certain fields. A “mood of intolerance” toward corruption is newly noticeable and criminal charges, rather than light wrist slaps, are becoming a more regular punishment for accused officials. He is also trying to make public finances more transparent and to create more barriers between companies that perform work for public bodies and public sector employees, forbidding the latter to seek employment with the former.

31 October 2009

38.  

Mr Tokyo Sexwale Human Settlements Minister

Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale is "sharpening his pencil" to root out corrupt contractors and officials who build shoddy houses for the poor.

A National Housing Audit headed by the Special Investigations Unit had been instituted to find the culprits who had caused "chronic" and "massive" problems in housing, he told journalists in Pretoria.

"We need to focus on issues we know are specific impediments: fraud, delays, corruption, absentee contractors, ghost houses, shoddy workmanship again and corruption around waiting lists."

2 November 2009

39.  

Statement by the Presidency, on President Zuma ordering several anti-corruption investigations into various Government departments

President Jacob Zuma has directed the Special Investigating Unit to investigate supply chain related concerns in a number of government departments.
The affected departments are the Department of Health in the Gauteng Province, Human Settlements, Department of Arts and Culture, Department of Education in the Eastern Cape Province, national Department of Public Works, the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) and the South African Police Service.
While not pre-judging the investigations, the proclamations are a clear indication of the President and Cabinet's stated resolve to combat corruption, mismanagement and maladministration at all levels of Government and the public service.

12 August 2010

40.  

SACP general secretary Blade Nzimande.

"There is lots of money doing the rounds in our organisation from people trying to buy votes, people trying to get into leadership positions".

41.  

President Zuma, at the party's NGC, on members who prematurely lobby for people to assume leadership positions.

"It is clear that the time has come for the organisation to act. We must take a decision that those who engage in such activities are in fact undermining the organisation and its work and at worst, are undermining the unity of the organisation. Action must be taken against them".

20 September 2010

42.  

President Jacob Zuma during the National General Council in Durban

We must eradicate corruption as well as perceptions of corruption.

A Cabinet Inter-Ministerial Committee has been established to coordinate government efforts to fight corruption. The IMC works with institutions such as the Public Protector, Auditor General, and the Special Investigating Unit to coordinate efforts.

Government has also established an Anti-Corruption Task Team led by the Directorate of Priority Crime Investigations, known as the Hawks, to coordinate investigations and prosecutions.

The areas identified as priority for scrutiny in government generally are supply chain management, identity theft, social grants system and electronic fraud. In August this year, we directed the Special Investigating Unit to investigate supply chain related concerns in seven government departments nationally as well as in Gauteng and the Eastern Cape.

Various preventative policy measures can be explored. These include the centralization of major contracts and procurement of major items, stricter penalties for service providers who obtain contracts illegally, to increase transparency and accountability in the tender processes, as well as to improve the protection of whistleblowers.

We must also implement the provisions in our election Manifesto which states that politicians should not tamper with the adjudication of tenders. Basically, we must not allow tenders to destroy the ANC.

Relative progress has been registered in the fight against this scourge.

20 September 2010

43.  

Cosatu's general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi

Cosatu's general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi announced last week that the trade federation would set up an anti-corruption unit, which would include a team of lawyers, accountants and auditors to conduct preliminary investigations and process these with the relevant authorities.

3 OCT 2010