PPADB battles to stamp out tender corruption

PPADB chairperson Bridget John
PPADB chairperson Bridget John

Anti-corruption measures have firmly taken centre stage in the country’s development agenda with the public procurement acknowledged as one area in which corruption manifests itself.

According to the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC), public tendering corruption has become so rampant and embedded in the country that it has now become the bane of the economic development agenda.

Even the global anti-corruption coalition, Transparency International (TI), indicated that while Botswana is internationally rated as the least corrupt, the country is still faced with some challenges with regard to corruption.

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