Corruption and Shame in South Africa: Lessons from Current Events

Corruption and Shame in South Africa: Lessons from Current Events

by Eden Schiffmann

In his recent post, Jordan noted that the OECD Working Group on Bribery recently approved a “scathing” report on South Africa’s noncompliance with the Anti-Bribery Convention. He described group members’ frustration at hitting “a brick wall” as their criticisms fail to effect any change in South Africa. Noting that the Convention’s primary mechanism of enforcing compliance is shame created by critical reports, Jordan asked the very important and provocative question: “What if shame isn’t enough?” A future post will explore an option that might exist for changing, expanding, or enforcing the Convention, but there’s a prior, empirical question: How is the shame mechanism working so far? Read more of this posthttp://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2014/04/25/corruption-and-shame-in-south-africa-lessons-from-current-events/