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In February 2023, a Soweto school governing body treasurer lamented: “We’re dealing with gangsters in the education department; they’re out to loot schools … We’re calling for help from law enforcement or the Special Investigating Unit.”
In case anyone thinks this was an isolated incident, the 2022 Corruption Watch report, Sound the Alarm, confirmed that education was one of the top three areas in which complaints of corruption were reported by the public (the other two were policing and state-owned enterprises). The most common education complaints were misappropriation of resources (45%), maladministration (17%), abuse of authority/victimisation of whistleblowers (15%), “sextortion”, bribery for jobs and flouting recruitment processes (12%), and procurement irregularities (11%).
