Perceptions of public sector corruption in SA — graphically highlighted in the Zondo commission report on state capture — have deteriorated with the country slipping one point in global rankings.
The 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index of international organisation Transparency International released on Tuesday shows that SA ranked 43 — the average score — on a scale of 0 to 100, where zero is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean. A total of 180 countries were evaluated using data from 13 external sources reflecting the views of country experts and surveys of businesspeople.
The global average of 43 indicates that more than two thirds of countries score below 50 and thus have a serious problem with corruption, and most countries have made little to no progress in tackling corruption in more than 10 years. “While SA may have scored above the regional average score, public sector corruption remains a serious — if not endemic — problem, underscored by a series of corruption scandals involving the former and incumbent presidents, which remain doggedly unresolved.
“The fact that SA has slipped a point at a time when there appears to be some momentum in bringing the corrupt to book, following the findings of the Zondo commission reports, is particularly galling. It is hardly comforting that we have leaders paying lip service to the anti-corruption agenda in an environment that is not just hostile but extremely dangerous for whistle-blowers and those activists seeking to address the huge inequality and injustices wrought by corruption.
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