Please join us for the online launch of Time for Action – Corruption in Joburg, the fifth report in CDE’s Johannesburg Matters series.

The intersection between corruption and organised crime in Johannesburg has reached levels so high that they threaten the metro’s viability.

Politically influenced boards and senior appointments facilitate tender manipulation to exploit opportunities for extraction. Elsewhere in the City’s structures, corrupt officials cooperate with external criminals involved in infrastructure theft, sabotage, building hijacking and extortion.

The result is not simply that criminals exploit a failing city, but that the potential proceeds of corrupt activity create incentives that directly contribute to institutional failure, where deteriorating infrastructure, emergency procurement and weak enforcement can create new opportunities for profit.

Turning this situation around is essential if the City is to be reformed. CDE will share its recommendations for addressing the crisis, which are based on two specially commissioned reports written by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC).

Online launch

• Ayanda Ntsaluba, group executive director, Discovery Ltd, will chair the event
• Ann Bernstein, executive director, CDE, will present the CDE report’s key findings and recommendations
•  Mark Shaw, executive director, GI-TOC, will talk about the research which served as a basis for CDE’s report.

This will be followed by an interactive Q&A.

Date:      Tuesday 6 October 2026
Time:      10 to 11:30 am
Register: https://cde-org-za.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FN0uMaOiTEuabrqCKmCJqQ

You need a Zoom account to register, and you can sign up (at no cost) on zoom.us. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Please contact Brenda Lunda | events@cde.org.za for registration queries. Please liaise with Refiloe Benjamin to coordinate media queries: media@cde.org.za | 011 482 5140.

Regards

Ann Bernstein

If you missed previous reports in the series, see Report One: Joburg in Jeopardy here; Report Two: Joburg’s Broken Budget here; Report Three: Kickstarting Delivery – Joburg’s Mission Critical Jobs, here; Report Four: Powering Joburg’s Turnaround, forthcoming.