Developed with Corruption Watch, this short ‘explainer’ looks at the impact of state capture on ordinary people’s and the ongoing efforts to implement anti corruption recommendations of the Commission of inquiry into State Capture.
Developed with Corruption Watch, this short ‘explainer’ video is aimed at highlighting core changes in the legislation that would make whistle-blowers safer. We ask the question, ‘why are politicians resisting these changes?’
Over 30 people died during a recent cholera outbreak in the region of Hammanskraal. A politically connected but shady businessman, Edwin Sodi, was given the contract to clean up the water treatment works implicated in contaminated water sources. The work was not completed. Residents of the town of Hammanskraal have been complaining about sewage in their water for years and years. The film raises the fact that the scourge of unsafe drinking water due to mismanagement by the municipality and lack of oversight from the Department of Water and Sanitation, is a national crisis and asks: who should be held to account?
In 2021 a civic organisation called the Makhanda Citizen’s Front contested local elections in the Eastern Cape town of Makhanda and became the official opposition to the ANC. This came after years of municipal mismanagement, corruption and high levels of frustration. On realizing that protests were not working, the citizens formed a diverse civic organisation. This film highlights how ordinary people from diverse backgrounds can organise outside of political party lines to replace poor leaders.
The story of the Usindiso building fire of 2023. The COI into the fire found the city responsible for the scale of deaths. The film also raises questions around the misuse of money allocated by the government for the rehousing of victims of the fire. The overarching question the film raises is around negligence and mismanagement of housing regulations and policy and the reneging of the social right to housing.
These are just the short versions of our documentaries. If you’d like to watch the full-length films or organise a screening, we’d love to hear from you.
How to Steal a Country is the story of the Gupta family’s spectacular rise from flea market shoe salesmen to establishing a massive black owned business empire in South Africa. It runs as a suspenseful detective story uncovering one huge bribery scandal after another, involving the top echelons of political power and several well-known multinational corporations.
