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4. We identify the top risks we believe our country faces, based on our analysis of the last five years’ reports as well as
forward looking information;
5. Based on these scenarios, we examine the top 12 risks below and how we believe our response to these risks could
influence our ultimate fate.

SP ARSENESS OF UNIFIED E THIC AL AND VISIONAR Y LEADERSHIP

T OP CHALLENGES TO P TREAT MENT S
• Lack of political courage. • Consistently mobilise and publish evidence-based
• Lack of real action to unequivocally link data that illustrate the many cases of want and
consequences to wrongdoing. wastage that recur because of unethical leadership
• Insidious effects of corruption and collusion impact in all sectors of our society.
on every aspect of South African life. • Re-empower and resource the various State organs
• Very few real arrests are made, despite the mounting to breathe life into the laws we already have.
prima facie evidence of grand level corruption and • Build the businesses that will build Africa by creating
theft. sustainable jobs and empower the communities in
• Slow speed of action and lack of decisive leadership. which they operate; and the conservation of the
environment.

C ONTINUING PRIV ATE AND PUBLIC GO VERNANCE F AIL URES

T OP CHALLENGES TO P TREAT MENT S

• Absence of ethical and effective leadership. • Significantly strengthen technical competencies
• Lack of consequences for unethical behaviour. in all areas of public, private, labour, and civil
• Not appointing the right leaders in the right organisations.
positions. • Strengthen SA’s ability to, through an
• Not recognising the interdependencies between unwavering approach to law enforcement from
good governance, technical competencies, and all parties involved, root out corruption and the
sustainable business practices. circumstances that make it possible.

F AIL URE T O R OO T OUT DEEPLY ENTRENCHED C ORR UPTION

T OP CHALLENGES TO P TREAT MENT S

• Continued underperformance of corruption- • Hold people accountable for performance.
fighting entities. • Hold people accountable for unethical behaviour.
• Current leadership structures seem helpless to • Implementation of consequence management.
arrest these practices, due to a lack of political will • Strengthen the State’s capacity to successfully
or because they themselves are implicated. investigate and prosecute corruption.
• Not having an effective National Corruption
Prevention Plan/Strategy.
• Key public sectors remain vulnerable to
corruption.

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