South Africa’s anti-corruption efforts continue to hover below the global average despite a global decline in corruption. This is according to the Anti-Corruption organisation, Transparency International’s latest Corruption Perception Index (CPI).

The index shows that South Africa’s score has remained unchanged at 41 over the last three years since 2024.

The CPI measures perceived levels of public-sector corruption in 182 countries on a scale of zero, representing the highest level of corruption and a hundred representing clean governance.

Executive Director at Corruption Watch, Lebogang Ramafoko, says while the country’s removal from the Financial Action Task Force’s greylist, and the ongoing inquiries into allegations of corruption with the criminal justice system are encouraging moves, more still needs to be done.

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Ramafoko adds, “A lot of resources have been spent both financially and human in terms of the talent that has basically been at these commission to uncover what has happened, the latest one being  the Madlanga Commission and the Ad Hoc Committee that is looking at what is happening mainly at SAPS but generally in the criminal justice system. While those developments are positive, one what they do is that they uncover the exactly how deep the root is but none of the recommendations of the Zondo Commission which happened quite a number of years ago have been fully implemented.”

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