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President Cyril Ramaphosa
President Cyril Ramaphosa says the National Anti-Corruption Advisory Council (NACAC) has recommended the establishment of an anti-corruption body.
NACAC has handed over its final report at the conclusion of its three-year term.
In the President’s weekly letter, Ramaphosa states that the report includes a recommendation to establish a permanent, independent, overarching anti-corruption body.
The Council recommends that this body be known as the Office of Public Integrity and Anti-Corruption and that its mandate be to prevent, investigate, and remedy systemic corruption.
The proposed body, which responds to one of the key recommendations of the State Capture Commission, would be expected to both fight corruption and prevent it from happening in the first place.
The NACAC report also recommends the strengthening and coordination of law enforcement agencies, using Artificial Intelligence to prevent corruption, and the establishment of an anti-corruption data sharing framework.
President Ramaphosa also stresses the need to tackle public and private sector corruption with equal energy, citing tax evasion, market manipulation, inflated contracts and tender collusion by businesses as some of the practices that significantly harm the economy but often receive less attention than corruption in public institutions.
