Madonsela: religion can beat corruption
PUBLIC Protector Thuli Madonsela believes South Africans should stop politicising public sector corruption and take responsibility for it, her office said.
In fact, quite the opposite, we have corruption in the public sector because there is corruption in civil society
"People see corruption as a political disease, like only politicians are corrupt," she said at a Diakonia Council of Churches function in Durban on Friday night.
"What about the public servants? For example, what about the engineers that certify that construction on shoddily built RDP houses has been completed according to specifications?" she said.
"This did not mean corruption did not exist in civil society.
"In fact, quite the opposite, we have corruption in the public sector because there is corruption in civil society.
"Otherwise, who corrupts those who exercise public power?
"Furthermore, people in the public sector are members of all our communities."
Madonsela said the religious community had a role to play in combating the "twin evils" of maladministration and corruption in the country.
With the likes of Dr Beyers Naude and Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa involved in the liberation struggle, Madonsela urged the cloth to get more involved in defeating the challenges to South Africa's young democracy.
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THEOZA
For corruption to happen there is the first person who paid money, i agree with you Ms Madonsela, we created monsters and they are now out to finish us off cause people just don't want to do things right they want shortcuts to everything by bribing officials to get their way. Driving licence for example we are always told that you have to pay up in order for you to can get your driver's license and after that we blame the very same officials for corruption and yet is us who paid them becaause they don't even request/demand it we just give it to them.SebolaNtimetseAdikateMoketla
@ThuliAfrican culture can beat corruption
ask me how?
we wont tell you if you dont ask
or let the African woman in you answer that question
i mean the African Woman even the white woman is so much scared of
the one who beat the pants out of the white man
mother of the nation
please protect this country
cook the african pot this time
and let them drink it!!!
FATLIPS
I disagree Madonsela... whatever proof you have about this boils back to engineers who are employed by the government which is corrupt, I work in an engineering company and becuase we are not the government you dont get such malicious outcomes, at the end of the day the Pr engs are the people who the governmnet should appoint to certify that the RDPs are okay, but as usual, the person working in the engineering section of the government got in there coz of things like nepotism, comrade what what who know nothing about what they are doing....1kinggladwin1
churches represent morality,its true but religion is not the answer nowadays the filthiest people are in church so i think we need families,parents and children with a gr8 moral fibreNincompoop
Eish, Thuli needs a real makeover...that hairstyle is not ayoba.BiBi
hawu Nkosi yami which church,the same one that ordained president so and so as a honorary pastor savelelwa thiniRead all 6 comments