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Corruption is a threat to good governance and hinders the growth and development of an organisation and the delivery of services. It is of international interest to establish organisations within the public and private sector realms for enhancing accountability and designing effective mechanisms and tools to enable these organisations to fight corruption. Corruption negatively affects economic development and increases poverty as public resources that are meant to fight poverty are appropriated by a small group of corrupt people for their benefit. Under these circumstances, South African society will continue to be characterised by economic inequality. There is strong empirical evidence that some public servants, in particular those at senior and executive levels, are continuing to loot public funds to benefit themselves. This has been done mostly by illegally influencing the processes of tenders for public institutions. The objective of this paper is to determine whether SAPS members encounter any difficulties in the process of completing the financial disclosure. This paper is qualitative and primary data has been collected from SAPS officials. Secondary data was collected from books and journal articles, official government documents such as gazettes. The main finding is that some SAPS officials disclose incorrect information about their income and properties. This article concludes that financial disclosure is a powerful tool for ensuring that the SAPS is free of corruption if it is administered properly. It recommends that streamlining and clarifying the financial disclosure procedure will effectively simplify the process of financial disclosure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In our democratic state it is vital to continue the fight against corruption. Although it has never been easy to successfully prevent corruption in any democratic society, anticorruption efforts remain important. The spread of corruption continues to affect every aspect of society in South Africa, and is a pandemic that undermines the government effort to spend public money for service delivery effectively. Acts of corruption threaten every citizen, but mostly those who are vulnerable. Effective implementation of anti-corruption systems remains the biggest challenge in the public sector. The literature argues that corrupt activities that are taking place in government structures cause citizens to lose confidence in the public sector. This paper reports on a study whose aim is to investigate what the impediments to the prevention of corruption in the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) are. The study is qualitative in nature, with primary and secondary data collected and analysed. The primary data was collected from the DHA and the secondary data from government documents, gazettes, books and journal articles. The key finding is that the DHA Counter Corruption Unit is short staffed and some officers/officials are unskilled and have too little experience to support the unit's mandate to eradicate corruption in the department. This article concludes that, in order for the DHA to effectively fight and prevent corruption, it must recruit officials who are skilled, experienced and corruptionfree for its Counter Corruption Unit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The democratic dispensation of the post-1994 government in South Africa promised a better life for all. However, shortly after the establishment of new polices by government and governance institutions, the promise faced conflicting socio/politico/economic challenges. One of the key issues to be considered when deciding on the implementation of overdue promises is the question of equitable distribution of resources and how to manage this process. Despite the above explanations few benefits arose from the application of these arguments. It appears that because of challenges at the highest levels of the tourism industry, real benefits have not yet reached people who are in need. This state of affairs provided an opportunity to propose workable recommendations to improve the situation, with the intention of positively influencing the various impacts that such development would have on the relevant communities.