June 2020 Newsletter
The global community is witnessing a new era propelled by the viral threat at our door step. In a span of two months, from March 2020 when the threat of COVID-19 became prominent, the world has been thrown into a […]
Open Letter to SADC Secretariat on COVID-19
On 22 May, members of our community of practice of social accountability practitioners in Sub-Saharan Africa wrote a letter to the Secretariat of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Representing organisations in Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe, […]
November 2019 Newsletter
The Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM) has been working in Southern Africa within the social accountability sector since 2007 whereas this year – 2019 – marks the organisation’s 20th year in existence. The Global Partnership for Social Accountability (GPSA) is […]
Treasury aims to simplify budget data
http://www.itweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=165197 “National Treasury told ITWeb it is in stage one of the development phase of an online budget dataportal. The portal will therefore publish [budget] data in a user-friendly format, which should enable more effective information-sharing, analysis and research.”
KPMG, McKinsey Feel the Heat Over South Africa Graft Scandal
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-18/kpmg-mckinsey-feel-the-heat-as-graft-scandal-rocks-south-africa “As global companies implicated in a graft scandal in South Africa scramble to contain the damage to their reputations, politicians and law enforcement agencies are prevaricating and stalling official investigations.”