S Africa tops corruption survey

JOHANNESBURG: Corruption is on the rise in Africa, with South Africa topping the list of countries where citizens believe the problem has got worse in the last year, said a Transparency International survey released on Tuesday.
According to the report, 83 percent of South Africans interviewed felt that corruption had increased, with Ghana and Nigeria also among the worst-affected nations. Across all 28 countries surveyed, the police, business executives, government officials and the courts were all perceived as corrupt, with 75 million people estimated to have paid a bribe in the past year.
"In both of these countries there are very high bribery rates and the public sector is perceived to be affected by extensive levels of corruption," said the survey.
It said 58 percent of all the people surveyed conducted across sub-Saharan Africa believed that graft levels were on the rise.