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The White-Collar Elephant in the Room: The human rights impact of private sector corruption in South African public procurement
Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2019.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/73367 The White-Collar Elephant in the Room: The human rights impact of private sector corruption in South African public procurement Abe, Oyeniyi tmerafe7@gmail.com Merafe, Tizi UCTD Public procurement Corruption Private sector Human rights Anti-corruption measures Public participation Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2019. In order to lead effectively, governments are mandated by the citizens to provide public services. These services are provided through a public procurement system. The South African constitution provides that contracts for goods and services identified by the government should be carried out in accordance with a system which is fair, equitable, transparent, competitive and cost-effective. However, all too often, these principles are undermined by corruption which is engaged in by all actors within the public procurement system. Over the last two decades, the South African media have uncovered several scandals that have revealed how pervasive corruption has been within the South African government and its public procurement system. The intricate details of the impact on the economic and human development of the country have revealed themselves with the deaths of several children in pit latrines and the ever-increasing gap between the wealthy and poor. The focus of this thesis will be on the role that private actors, in their capacity as service providers to government, play in further entrenching corruption within South Africa’s public procurement system. It will identify the anti-corruption measures that are currently in place to detect, investigate and prosecute the perpetrators. It will be shown that the measures currently in place in the South African legal framework, though theoretically adequate, have been weakened through excessive manipulation and interference by the executive branch of government. Drawing from the civil observer mechanism that has been embedded into the Philippine government procurement framework, it will propose legislative reforms to increase the efficacy of public participation of individual South African citizens and civil society to further empower the public in combating the corruption engaged in by the private sector. Centre for Human Rights LLM Unrestricted 2020-02-17T10:06:40Z 2020-02-17T10:06:40Z 2019 2019 Dissertation Merafe, T 2019, The White-Collar Elephant in the Room: The human rights impact of private sector corruption in South African public procurement, LLM Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/73367> D2019 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/73367 en © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Public procurement Corruption Private sector Human rights Anti-corruption measures Public participation The White-Collar Elephant in the Room: The human rights impact of private sector corruption in South African public procurement |
| title | The White-Collar Elephant in the Room: The human rights impact of private sector corruption in South African public procurement |
| title_full | The White-Collar Elephant in the Room: The human rights impact of private sector corruption in South African public procurement |
| title_fullStr | The White-Collar Elephant in the Room: The human rights impact of private sector corruption in South African public procurement |
| title_full_unstemmed | The White-Collar Elephant in the Room: The human rights impact of private sector corruption in South African public procurement |
| title_short | The White-Collar Elephant in the Room: The human rights impact of private sector corruption in South African public procurement |
| title_sort | white collar elephant in the room the human rights impact of private sector corruption in south african public procurement |
| topic | UCTD Public procurement Corruption Private sector Human rights Anti-corruption measures Public participation |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/73367 |