{"id":7284,"date":"2012-02-16T16:47:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T16:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=7284"},"modified":"2012-02-16T16:47:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T16:47:43","slug":"sa-the-only-country-with-programme-to-fight-corruption-zuma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/16\/sa-the-only-country-with-programme-to-fight-corruption-zuma\/","title":{"rendered":"SA the only country with &#8216;programme&#8217; to fight corruption: Zuma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/868074_736468.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7289\" title=\"868074_736468\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/868074_736468-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a>Replying to points raised in the National Assembly during debate on his state of the nation address, Zuma said it was &#8220;important to emphasise that most of the corruption you read about in the media is exposed as a result of the work of government and its agencies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Amid laughter from opposition benches, he continued: &#8220;What we should remember is that South Africa is the only country that has a programme to fight corruption. It&#8217;s not being fought anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And that&#8217;s why you can&#8217;t read about corruption in other countries. It&#8217;s a reality. South Africa has a programme to fight corruption and it is fighting it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You must be saying &#8216;well done government&#8217;. We&#8217;re one of the countries in the world that has a dedicated programme of fighting corruption.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zuma said the anti-corruption task team, consisting of representatives from security agencies, was investigating 45 corruption-related priority cases against 151 people.<\/p>\n<p>Assets of more than R600 million had been seized.<\/p>\n<p>More than R1 billion worth of assets obtained through illicit means had been forfeited in the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>Since the inception of the national anti-corruption hotline managed by the Public Service Commission, a total of 1499 officials had been charged with misconduct for corrupt activities at national and provincial government levels.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) was probing cases arising from 23 proclamations, relating mainly to procurement irregularities in government departments nationally, provincially, and also in some public enterprises.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have split the function of heading the SIU and the Asset Forfeiture Unit to improve focus and output,&#8221; Zuma said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let us work together to promote clean governance and remove corruption in the public service and society in general.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Replying to points raised in the National Assembly during debate on his state of the nation address, Zuma said it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[1027,1520,1498],"class_list":["post-7284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-corruption","tag-sa","tag-zuma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}