A spotlight on governance

The history of the country’s corporate sector is littered with episodes of gross poor governance and even scandals, very often swept under the rug and eventually forgotten. By necessity, the spotlight on governance is often on government as a taxpayer funded entity, but it is also true that some of the worst governance infractions have taken place and continue to do so in parastatals, private companies and NGOs.

In the absence of substantive whistle-blower legislation and similar supportive structures within most organisations, vices such as nepotism, procurement fraud, corporate bullying, gross corruption and abuse of power have become commonplace in the corporate space, with the culprits seemingly immune to censure.