Name: How to tackle corruption | The Economist
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Corruption costs the world nearly $3trn every year…

…and blights the lives of hundreds of millions

…there's a renewed drive to disrupt corruption

We need to act with urgency and purpose…

…to restore our state-owned enterprises

We've got to make sure that there's strong, committed, ethical leadership

…to new technologies shining a light on the problem

Now in Ukraine we have the most transparent corruption in the world

Communities, companies and countries are learning lessons…

Our country changed to one of the obvious technological leaders

This was one of the largest cases the SFO had worked on

…and challenge the culture that allows it to continue

Do we accept the way it is or do you stand up for something?

This is a notoriously violent and lawless district of Cape Town in South Africa

Here in Cape Flats there were almost 1,000 murders…

And police corruption is helping to fuel this violence

Alcardo was a year old here so we decided to give him a little party

He grew up in the community as a teenager

Avril Andrews says both she and the police know the identity of the killer…

But Avril believes police corruption has stalled her search for justice

Corruption affects our community very much

One of the guys tried to intimidate my family

Our community is going down, people feel there is no hope

Since her son's death Avril has spoken out publicly at great personal risk…

…against the corrupt forces undermining the rule of law in her community

Alcardo, this is the fourth year that we are seeking justice

There are certain things that you've discussed with me…

…that you would have loved to do in the community…

In South Africa the police are known to supply weapons to gangs

In 2016 a former police colonel pleaded guilty to illegally selling 2,400 guns

…where nearly 2,500 shootings have been linked to illegal guns since 2010…

Within the South African police, anti-corruption campaigners…

…have documented over 475 reports of bribery…

…and over 300 reports of abuse of power

Avril has founded a support group for bereaved mothers…

…campaigning for justice in the face of this corruption

In the past six years 229 dockets, records of court proceedings…

…are reported to have gone missing in Western Cape

Lesley Wyngaard, whose son was also murdered in Cape Flats…

…mysteriously disappeared from the court house

The prosecutor told me, “I had the file”…

…“I had the file”, so somebody sneaked that file out of his office…

In South Africa the rot of corruption runs deep

This secretly recorded footage captured a successful businessman…

…Gavin Watson, seemingly organising to pay bribes to government officials

…was a hero of the anti-apartheid struggle…

…and had close links to the ANC party…

During the nine-year presidency of Jacob Zuma…

He and his cronies plundered state-owned enterprises

In Zuma's second term alone, about $100bn was stolen…

…just short of a third of South Africa's GDP

But South Africans demanded change and in 2019 they elected…

…a new president on an explicit platform to crack down on corruption

Cyril Ramaphosa has set out to provide the clean leadership…

…that is vital in any fight against corruption

…and purpose to restore our state-owned enterprises

Those who monitored the excesses of the Zuma years…

…are hopeful his successor will drive change from the top

Corruption Watch has been in existence for eight years now…

…mostly during the Zuma administration…

…and working with the two administrations is like night and day

We now encounter an administration that is…

…much more willing to work with the likes of us

Doesn't mean that we don't have to be vigilant…

…but there's definitely a new spirit afoot in the country…

…although still huge problems to overcome

The new leadership has already begun to make its mark

I think it's achieved a fair amount in the period since…

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