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Johannesburg - South Africa’s poor corruption record has once again
affected its global reputation as it has dropped to 69 out of 176 countries
from 64 in 2011 in Transparency International’s latest Corruption Perceptions
Index 2012. It is a far cry from the 43rd place of 2007‚ at the time an
eight-point improvement.
Two thirds of the 176 countries ranked in the 2012 index
score below 50‚ on a scale from 0 (perceived to be highly corrupt) to 100
(perceived to be very clean)‚ showing that public institutions need to be more
transparent‚ and powerful officials more accountable. SA’s score out of 100 was
just 43.
On the African continent SA dropped down two places to
number 7 from 9.
The five best countries in the world were Denmark‚ Finland‚
New Zealand‚ Sweden and Singapore‚ while the five worst countries were Myanmar‚
Sudan‚ Afghanistan‚ Korea (North) and Somalia. Botswana came out best of the
African countries‚ but Africa remains the most corrupt continent followed by
Eastern Europe.
“After a year with a global focus on corruption‚ we expected more governments to take a tougher stance against the abuse of power‚” said Huguette Labelle‚ the chair of the board of directors of Transparency International.
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