How can South African business take action against corruption?

Описание: Investing in corruption prevention pays, and the business sector should lead the search for solutions.
The private sector in South Africa is a potential leverage point for anti-corruption reform. Investing in corruption prevention pays. New research shows that compliance programmes are good for companies’ market share, profit margins and sustainable growth.

Companies are not incentivised to behave ethically if the sector they operate in is corrupt. Collective action projects driven by businesses can change systemic corruption – sector-by-sector and company-by-company. This seminar releases new ISS and GIBS analysis that presents two international good practice methods that businesses can use to proactively reduce corruption risks.

This seminar is co-hosted by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) and Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria (GIBS).


Moderator: Cheryl Frank, Project Manager, Anti-Corruption and Accountability Project, ISS

Panelists:

Khulekani Mathe, CEO, Business Unity South Africa
Peter Solmssen, former General Counsel, Siemens
Pranesh Maharaj, Chief Programme Portfolio Officer, Special Investigating Unit
Khangi Khoza, Chief Executive Officer, Swissport South Africa (TBC)

This seminar is funded by the UK Department for International Development. The ISS is also grateful for support from the members of the ISS Partnership Forum: the Hanns Seidel Foundation, the European Union, the Open Society Foundations and the governments of Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden.