{"id":23551,"date":"2026-02-10T08:26:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T06:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-stagnates-in-fight-against-corruption-report\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:20","slug":"sa-stagnates-in-fight-against-corruption-report","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-stagnates-in-fight-against-corruption-report\/","title":{"rendered":"SA\u00a0stagnates in fight against corruption: Report\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa (SA) has made no progress in tackling corruption over the past three years, according to Transparency International and its 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) released today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Index shows worsening global corruption and a decline in leadership, with SA stagnating at a score of 41, unchanged from last year and still below the global average of 42.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The CPI evaluates public-sector corruption in 182 countries and territories, using a scale from 0, indicating highly corrupt, to 100, indicating very clean.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23552,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-23551","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"SA has made no progress in tackling corruption over the past three years","published_date":"2026-02-10 10:25:00","news_description":"SA has made no progress in tackling corruption over the past three years","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26481,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23551\/revisions\/26481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}