Sria Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/sria/ The low down on African affairs Wed, 21 Feb 2018 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Sria Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/sria/ 32 32 SA corruption seen as getting worse https://jjcornish.com/2018/02/sa-corruption-seen-getting-worse/ Wed, 21 Feb 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/02/sa-corruption-seen-getting-worse/ Corruption in South Africa’s seen to be worse than last year. The Transparency Corruption Index for 2017, now out scores  South Africa at 43 out of a possible 100. It was 45 the previous year. South Africa’s score of 43 on Transparency International’s latest  corruption perception index accords exactly  with the average of 180 countries […]

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]]> Corruption in South Africa’s seen to be worse than last year.

The Transparency Corruption Index for 2017, now out scores  South Africa at 43 out of a possible 100.

It was 45 the previous year.

South Africa’s score of 43 on Transparency International’s latest  corruption perception index accords exactly  with the average of 180 countries assessed

That’s not necessarily comforting news from the Berlin-based international watchdog that finds countries are making little or no progress fighting graft.

This year, New Zealand and Denmark rank highest with scores of 89 and 88 respectively. Syria, South Sudan and Somalia rank lowest with scores of 14, 12 and 9 respectively. Sub-Saharan Africa with an average score of 32 is the worst performing region.

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