New plan to deal with corruption

By Patrick Cull, Political Correspondent

Cape Town – The government is developing an integrated corruption management information system in order to “improve the efficiency of reporting on corruption and protection of whistle-blowers”, Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi said yesterday.

Addressing a media briefing, the minister said one of the challenges government had faced was its inability to provide “hard, consolidated statistics on corruption.

“At present we have no single database of this kind of information that includes information on disciplinary cases, risk areas, prejudice to the State and the efficiency of handling corruption cases.”

She said the new system would not only “address major gaps in our knowledge of the incidence and perceptions of corruption, but would also contribute greatly to the roll-out of the public service anti-corruption strategy”.

The system, she added, would allow all stakeholders to capture and maintain information through a web-based interface. For security reasons different levels of access would be built into the system.

She said it would be used to “audit anti-corruption capacity, conduct risk assessments and track the process of data collection”.

The first phase of the project is expected to be completed in April, and it should be “running and populated by January 2006”.

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