CORRUPTION in South Africa has had long-lasting and far-reaching effects. It has deterred investment, created huge economic losses, exacerbated poverty and inequality, engendered public sector dysfunctionality, service delivery protests and unrest, resulted in human rights violations, and fanned public frustrations.
Corruption has led to a continuous erosion of institutional integrity, transparency, and a lack of trust in the political and administrative institutions of the state. Corruption has also had a corrosive impact on the rule of law and democratic processes.
Policies, however well intended, lack credibility, and fail to secure citizen, business and civil society buy-in, if there is a perception that the government is corrupt. In addition, the allocation of public procurement contracts through a corrupt system has led to a lower quality of infrastructure and public services.
Corruption…