'Schools and hospitals pay a heavy price for corruption'

30 July 2015 - 02:02 By RDM News Wire

A code of ethics for the public sector and a partnership with the private sector is needed to help curb corruption, says Deputy Public Protector Kevin Malunga. Investigations by his office show the country is losing money to fraud and corruption that could have been used for infrastructure such as schools and better public health facilities."To fight this problem," Malunga said, "we need to come together as government and the private sector as no one can win this fight alone."He was addressing the annual South African Insurance Conference at Sun City, near Rustenburg, this week.He told more than 1200 delegates there was an "urgent need to develop a transversal code of conduct to help curb ethical shortfalls in how those in the public sector conducted themselves". ..

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