JP Landman
Political & Trend Analyst
Corruption
Neither a one-day, nor a one-person job
2023-09-21 1487 views audio available
In 2021, two researchers published a paper on corruption in the US between 1865 and 1941, a period infamous for its corruption. They distilled four lessons from that period.
Corruption and consequences
2022-10-21 6332 views audio available
Once a year, usually in August, I do an update on the fight against corruption. This year I delayed it because the head of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), Shamila Batohi, committed in May to Parliament that nine ‘high-profile’ state capture cases would be brought to court by the end of September 2022.
It is not the Criminal, it is the Civil
2021-08-17 2088 views audio available
After a week during which both Jacob Zuma’s and Ace Magashule’s criminal trials were postponed again, many South Africans are wondering when they will see people in orange overalls. That is fair. But while the wheels of criminal justice turn slowly, it doesn’t mean there are no consequences for wrongdoing. Civil proceedings have already had quite an impact.
Corruption
2020-08-14 7141 views
There is palpable anger in the land about corruption. The anger is largely focused on what the ANC is doing and failing to do about the scourge. If we separate party and state, it is useful to look at the scoreboard of what the state has achieved so far in fighting corruption.
Audit and Analysis of 2006 South African print Media Reports on Corruption
2007-09-30 449 views
A follow-up study on the groundbreaking 2002 report on media reporting on corruption in SA.
Corruption
2004-02-13 468 views
"The groundbreaking and original study analysed a few thousand pages of media reporting on corruption in SA and came to some startling conclusions. Based on empirical evidence, it was used by the United Nations in a country assessment report on corruption"
Making public corruption in SA
2002-06-01 337 views
"The groundbreaking and original study analysed a few thousand pages of media reporting on corruption in SA and came to some startling conclusions. Based on empirical evidence, it was used by the United Nations in a country assessment report on corruption"