At Reputegrity Compliance and Ethics Solutions, we help our clients (and society) to build a strong ethical culture. Over the last few years, working with other experts on this matter and from real-life experiences we suggest five ways to build a strong and sustainable ethical culture within organisations. We found that (1) when the tone…
I am text block. Click edit button to change this text. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.
In a 2007 judgement in a case involving a whistleblower and the Minister of Justice, Labour Court Judge Daya Pillay said that “whistleblowers are not impimpis, a derogatory term reserved for apartheid-era police spies. In recent times its pejorative connotation is increasingly replaced by openness and accountability. Employees who seek to correct wrongdoing, to report…
The Inspection and Enforcement Service (IES) unit of the Department of Employment and Labour (DEL) will be conducting more workplace inspections as companies prepare to resume operations under Level 4 of government’s risk adjusted strategy for economic activity. With almost 2 800 inspections conducted between 01 April and 8 May, a total of 1 237…
Despite a major overhaul of our whistleblower legislation, South Africa remains an unsafe place for whistleblowers. Ask Cynthia Stimpel who saved South African Airways more than R250m when she raised concern about a R15bn debt restructuring loan agreement with little-known BnP Capital. She got hounded out of the airliner and is fighting to get her…
South Africa simply does not have enough traffic law enforcement officers and that is the root cause for the high for the road accident fatality rate. With less than 19 000 traffic officers and close to 12.5 million vehicles, the officer:car ratio is 662 and with a road network of around 747 000km, each traffic officer is…
Following three years of investigation into the claims made to the Public Protector, this constitutional structure, has issued the final report today. During this period I have always cooperated with the investigators and did what was required of me throughout the process and this report brings an end to some of the uncertainties and difficulties…
Cabinet yesterday confirmed the appointment of Reputegrity MD, Lionel Adendorf, to the Board of Directors of the National Electronic Media Institute of South Africa (NEMISA). He was appointed with six other experts to the board that will be lead by Molebogeng Leshabane. Adendorf, is a former president of the South African Student Press Union and…
More than a quarter of the 282 respondents who took part in PWC’s Global Economic Crime and Fraud Survey 2018, believe that cybercrime will be the most disruptive economic crime to affect their organisations over the short-term. Then, EY’s 15thGlobal Fraud Survey also found that “by 2025, 75% of the global workforce will be comprised…
The trouble that a whistleblower is causing US President, Donald Trump, has evoked the most fascinating debate about the important role of whistleblowers in society. Moreover, the complaint laid by an anonymous source with the office of the inspector general for the U.S. intelligence community, also highlight pertinent issues such as how whistleblowers should and should not…
It has always been our intention to bring leaders of government, civil society, business and academia together under one roof to look at constructive and tangible ways to improve and promote business integrity and trust in South Africa. Following engagements with government, we have agreed to a proposal that suggested that we postpone the Business…
Minister of Public Service and Administration, Senzo Mchunu, welcomed a briefing by Lionel Adendorf, MD of Reputegrity Compliance and Ethics Solutions, of the Business Integrity Summit, planned for 14 – 16 October, and looks forward to the event itself and its outcomes. “I have been kept abreast with the developments and are looking at my…
Lionel Adendorf, Managing Director of Reputegrity Compliance and Ethics Solutions, met with the Prof Deon Rossouw, CEO of The Ethics Institute (TEI) this morning to look at the range of opportunities and services that TEI offers. “Reputegrity is a small and growing company that wishes to be at the forefront of the latest technology and…
Taxpayers and citizens are guaranteed better services, and a reduction in the cost of these services is perhaps possible at last It is estimated that the commissions of inquiry into allegations of state capture, corruption and fraud in the public sector including organs of state; into tax administration and governance by Sars; into allegations of…
Five years ago, South Africa was in the Top 5 African countries of which its citizens thought that its government was doing badly in the fight against corruption. With 79% of the South African population agreeing that the government was losing the fight against corruption, South Africa, at 83%, topped the category for countries with…
Transparency International released the 10th edition of the Global Corruption Barometer – Africa on Africa Anti-Corruption Day. It found that “corruption is hindering Africa’s economic, political and social development… (and) that it is a major barrier to economic growth, good governance and basic freedoms, such as freedom of speech or citizens’ right to hold governments…
Government organisations in Sub-Saharan Africa account for less than a quarter of the 267 cases reported in the 2018 Global Study on Occupational Fraud and Abuse (RTTN-Sub-Saharan-Africa-Edition), published by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), but suffered the greatest median loss, at R3.8-billion. This region has the second largest median loss in this type of…
