City of Cape Town commemorated World Anti-Corruption Day which is majorly focused on ‘Uniting with Youth Against Corruption: Shaping Tomorrow’s Integrity’.
The Ethics and Forensics Department of the City of Cape Town plays an active and proactive role in investigating and rooting out the corruption to ensure that the public funds are safeguarded for service delivery.
The campaign will drive a numerous awareness initiative in 2025 to include the youth as valuable partners in building a generation of integrity and one that stands up to corruption.
City of Cape Town also has a proactive approach to investigate claims of fraud and corruption that are related to the city and its operations. Members of the public are encouraged to become ‘fraud and corruption fighters’ whose work is to report the suspected fraud and corruption.
Member of the Mayoral Committee for Finance – Councillor Siseko Mbandezi said that the administration has established a solid anti-corruption foundation with the theme of this year’s Anti-Corruption Day which is mainly focused on youth anti-corruption warriors.
According to the Councillor Mbandezi, they are reminded of how corruption takes away the opportunities from the next generation, erodes ethics and integrity that leads to greater inequality.
The Ethics and Forensics Department will be conducting various initiatives in the upcoming year 2025 to drive education and awareness and create greater partners no matter whether young or old, in order to put efforts to eradicate corruption and fraud from the city Cape Town.
Moreover, corruption intensifies the precarious situation, along with the world on a knife’s edge pertaining to poverty, climate change and geo-political pressures.
As per the reports from the United Nations there are 1.9 billion young people in the world and as they are the leaders of tomorrow. It is important to instil a new dawn of integrity in them and lead by examples.
Being an administration, they remain absolutely committed to the zero tolerance and proactive stance in order to fight corruption and fraud as well as to protect public funds and service delivery at all costs.
Notably, anonymous reporting is allowed to do on incidents related to any person at the City or who has sealed deals with the City of Cape Town, irrespective of position or seniority considering employee, client or suppliers.
While reporting any incident, members of the public should remember to mention the what, when, where, who and how with an estimated value. Keep in mind that when a member of the public submits information, they get a reference number for follow ups and are advised to keep them confidential.