Sisulu’s Anti-Corruption Strategy At Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation Department Begins To Bear Fruit

LUCAS LEDWABA

CORRUPTION busters have always lamented a paucity of political will by those holding office for lack of action against those implicated in graft, bribery, incompetence and financial skulduggery.

This disturbing fact is corroborated by the findings of a 2018 study, Understanding Political Will and Public Corruption in South Africa [Harris Maduku et al], which concluded “that the legal framework on its own without the support of political-will shall not overcome this cancer [corruption].”

While politicians often make sweeping and hard-hitting public statements about fighting corruption, these are often not followed up by action.

But since taking over the troubled Water and Sanitation portfolio over a year ago, Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation Lindiwe Sisulu has given an indication she may well be possessing the political will needed to aid corruption busters on their mission to curb graft in government.

Sisulu clearly had no delusions about the