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The ideology and politics of anti-corruption : reframing the debate
Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2020.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/82447 The ideology and politics of anti-corruption : reframing the debate Modiri, Joel omogoeng@gmail.com Mogoeng, Oteng Critical Legal Studies Corruption Legalism UCTD Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2020. This study is based on anti-corruption discourse in South Africa and the legalistic way in which it is dominantly perceived. A qualitative methodology has been adopted to interrogate and problematize this legalistic perspective for being instrumental to the maintenance of corruption in South Africa. The study contends that the Western ideological and cultural background of South Africa’s legal system contributes to the continued subjugation of the indigenous African population. The researcher argues that the dominant perspective of anti-corruption discourse has misdiagnosed the problem, thereby making the discourse unprogressive and stagnant. Legalism focuses on the corrupt behaviour of individuals and fails to understand corruption as an institutional problem owing its roots to South Africa’s history of colonialism and apartheid. A political-ideological perspective is then suggested as an alternative approach that can be used to shift the dominant perception of corruption into one that is more historically responsive. This perspective understands that corruption in South Africa is a system of governance that was established during the colonial order, one that is still operative in South Africa today. It sees corrupt individual activities as simply a by-product of a problematic system and therefore, not the root cause of the problem. In conclusion, the researcher contends that reframing the current anti-corruption discourse into one that centres South Africa’s history and politics enables us to address the problem at its roots. Jurisprudence LLM Unrestricted 2021-11-02T10:05:14Z 2021-11-02T10:05:14Z 2021-04-15 2020 Dissertation Mogoeng, O 2020, The ideology and politics of anti-corruption: reframing the debate, Master's dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria. A2024 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/82447 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 | Critical Legal Studies Corruption Legalism UCTD The ideology and politics of anti-corruption : reframing the debate |
| title | The ideology and politics of anti-corruption : reframing the debate |
| title_full | The ideology and politics of anti-corruption : reframing the debate |
| title_fullStr | The ideology and politics of anti-corruption : reframing the debate |
| title_full_unstemmed | The ideology and politics of anti-corruption : reframing the debate |
| title_short | The ideology and politics of anti-corruption : reframing the debate |
| title_sort | ideology and politics of anti corruption reframing the debate |
| topic | Critical Legal Studies Corruption Legalism UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/82447 |