Anti-corruption strategies in the South African public sector : perspectives on the contributions of complexity thinking and ICTs

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dc.contributor.advisorCloete, Fanieen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorHabtemichael, Faniel Sahleen_ZA
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. School of Public Management and Planning.
dc.date.accessioned2009-03-02T07:39:25Zen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2010-06-01T08:20:42Z
dc.date.available2009-03-02T07:39:25Zen_ZA
dc.date.available2010-06-01T08:20:42Z
dc.date.issued2009-03en_ZA
dc.descriptionThesis (PhD (School of Public Management and Planning ))—University of Stellenbosch, 2009.
dc.description.abstractAmong the multitude of problems that contemporary South Africa is faced with, is corruption. Corruption in contemporary South Africa has spread to a systemic level, as evidenced through national and international research, official government statements, and the media. The leakage of billions of Rand from government coffers to greedy individuals is alarming. Allegations of corruption are increasingly implicating top government and party officials. Some of government payrolls are invaded by ghost workers; government accounts are charged by over- and under-invoicing, phantom billing and ghost beneficiaries. Resources are diverted and leaked in the process of supply chain activities. Against these, ICTs are not well placed, despite their capabilities to counter administrative corruption. The dissertation focuses on exploring the answers to the following questions in the South African public sector. i. What is corruption and why is it still increasing, despite the availability of ICTs that can effectively assist in tracking and tracing irregularities in the financial system? ii. How sufficiently and effectively are ICTs designed to minimise susceptibility to corruption in financial transactions, HR issues, and the activities (elements) of the supply chain? iii. How cohesive and integrated are the sub-systems and systems in the anticorruption industry (organisationally, nationally and internationally) in order to close the loopholes for corruption? iv. Is there a nationally centralised database system that is used as a frame of reference in administrative decision making? v. What general problems are there in the anti-corruption system? 6 In the effort to move from the conceptual to the empirical level, these problems provide the main stimulus for exploring the status and role of information technologies in the anti-corruption system.en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1397
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherStellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch
dc.rights.holderUniversity of Stellenbosch
dc.subjectTheses -- Public management and planning
dc.subjectDissertations -- Public management and planning
dc.subjectSouth Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994-
dc.subjectPolitical corruption -- South Africa -- Prevention
dc.subjectAbuse of administrative power -- South Africa
dc.subject.lcshAbuse of administrative power -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.titleAnti-corruption strategies in the South African public sector : perspectives on the contributions of complexity thinking and ICTsen_ZA
dc.title.alternativePolitical corruption -- South Africa
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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