ACT OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN CORRUPTION

THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY AND MEDIA

The necessary political will should be created by civil society’s observation on the part all levels
of governance to pledge with corruption in all forms. In public and private sectors corruption
activities should be criminalized. If corruption activities are criminalized, measures must be
taken with mean rules of conduct and would encourage institutions to legally take strict Anti-
corruption measures. The public sector came on board and support civil society organization in
their efforts to battle corruption in both sectors that is something that is very crucial. Paul added
that added by saying This would counter the widely-hold narrative that business benefits from
corrupt dealings with the state www.ngopulse.org.

Civil society should ensure enforcement in Anti-bribery instruments and judicial pronouncement
against corrupt leaders of public and private sector. A clear process to monitor implementation
should be developed by civil society. Advocacy efforts would be informed by this and apply
pressure on the government and its departments to hurry up with the application of corrective
actions authorized by courts of law and commission of enquiry counting the public sectors
report. Moreover, even if Politian’s who are privileging their dedications to fight corruption and
expose them if they depart from such venture civil society should still monitor them.

At all times the monitoring process must be transparent. In this contemplate, accepted agencies
of communication must authorize civil society organizations and ordinary citizens counting
endangered populations to indicate their opinions and this must be laid to thought in thought in
the process of monitoring.

The plays an important role when it comes to holding those in public power accountable. The
South African media is watchful when it approaches the monitoring and describing on corruption
scandals though it countenances challenges of capacity, mainly in the area of investigative
journalism. ‘the media, unshackled from apartheid-era press censorship, uses the freedom to
report to the Anti-corruption efforts of the state and importantly, to probe the thorny issues that
citizens in every modern society fear are being covered up by various interest groups ‘Van
Vuuren 2006;4.