ANA reports that in the 12 years since the inception of government's anti-corruption hotline, a total of 3,570 civil servants have been charged with graft, the governance and administration cluster said on Thursday.  

The proceedings saw the dismissal of 1,694 officials.  A further 438 were fined in the form of having their salary withheld for three months, 133 were demoted and 913 were served with written warnings.  A total of 392 were criminally charged.  By the end of August, information received from whistleblowers since the inception of the hotline in 2004 had led to 18,076 cases referred to departments.  Of that number 16,547 have been completed.  Meantime, government was stepping up its efforts to prevent civil servants from doing business with the state, and this included plans to ban those who were charged for this reason from returning to government employment for a period of up to ten years.

• Read this report by Emsie Ferrreira in full at IOL News
• See too, Nearly 300 government employees currently on suspension, at News24
• And also, Public servants given deadline for disclosing their state business activities, at BDLive

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