2008 Assessment

This peer-reviewed country report includes:

Integrity Indicators Scorecard: Scores, scoring criteria, commentary, references, and peer review perspectives for more than 300 Integrity Indicators.

Reporter's Notebook: An on-the-ground look at corruption and integrity from a leading local journalist.

Corruption Timeline: Ten years of political context to today's corruption and integrity issues.

Country Facts: Statistical context for each country.

South Africa has a network of agencies to fight corruption, but Global Integrity data suggest that this decentralized approach opens the door for political influence. Political parties, the executive branch, and intelligence agencies have all been accused of political interference in their attempts to influence the separate court cases of former National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi and African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma. Weaknesses also exist in political financing, where there is no requirement for the disclosure of private donations to political parties; parties only disclose information related to their public funding. South Africa's media ranked high and its "trade unions continue to be very influential," carrying on their advocacy role from the apartheid era and adding to an already active civil society.