Category Archives: Corruption

Bracing for the Back of Port

South Durban’s residents fight back against corruption, destruction and neglect Colleen steps gingerly out of her home in Clairwood, Durban. A large truck is stuck in the narrow residential road just outside her house; crumbling Colleen’s brick wall as it attempts to back out. Colleen runs out onto the muddy street, wading to her knees […]

Corruption: Strategies Require the Right Conceptual Framework

I have lately become convinced that the nefarious terms “corruption”, “nepotism”, “cronyism” and “tenderpreneurship” are becoming so entrenched in descriptions of government in South Africa that it is becoming impossible to think about government factually, taking into account that not all inefficiencies in government are immediately corrupt. It is becoming an assumption that government as […]