Anti-Corruption Summit
Mr. President;
Members of the Executive;
Your Excellencies, Ambassadors and High Commissioners;
Madame Chairperson of the National Anti-corruption Forum;
Members of the National Anti-corruption Forum;
Distinguished delegates, guests, friends and comrades;
Ladies and gentlemen.
1. Introduction
The first Public-sector anti-corruption conference was held
in Cape Town, during 10-11th November 1998. At this
conference, a call was made for the anti-corruption effort
to become a national concern, which would include all
sectors of South African society. Consequently, the first
National Anti-Corruption Summit was convened in April of
1999. At that summit, a resolution was passed, calling for a
national anti-corruption forum to be established. Two years
later, after much debate and preparation, the National
Anti-Corruption Forum (NACF) was launched in Cape Town on
June 15th, 2001.
The first National Anti-Corruption Summit also passed
resolutions focused around three (3) major strategic areas
in the campaign against corruption, namely:
- Preventing Corruption
- Combating Corruption and
Building integrity and raising awareness
- Today we are gathered here under the auspices of the NACF to
critically assess strategies and past achievements in
fighting corruption and to examine future challenges to both
prevent and combat corruption in order, hopefully, to unite
the various sectors to a common programme of action.
2. The Composition of the NACF
The NACF is comprised of 3 sectors, viz. civil society,
business and government. Each sector is represented by 10
members nominated by their respective constituencies. The
current chairperson is the Minister for the Public Service
and Administration, Ms Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi. The Public
Service Commission provides the secretariat to support NACF
and has recently obtained funding from the National Treasury
(R500.000.00 annually for three years) in order to
strengthen this role.
3. Functions of the NACF include :
-
To contribute towards the establishment of a national
consensus through the co-ordination of sectoral strategies
against corruption;
- To advise Government on national initiatives on the
implementation of strategies to combat corruption;
- To share information and best practice on sectoral
anti-corruption work;
- To advise sectors on the improvement of sectoral
anti-corruption strategies.
4. Conclusion
I hope therefore during the next day - and - a half of
proceedings that we achieve the objectives we have set for
ourselves. I should therefore like to take this opportunity
of wishing us well as we put into motion the next phase of
our anti-corruption programme in South Africa.
|
|
