HOW DO WE STOP THE CULTURE OF GIVING AND TAKING BRIBES AND SOUTH AFRICA?

Objective: To get an understanding of what encourages it, why is it so prevalent for people to take the easy way out and pay a bribe, how we can begin attempts to curb it and then why has it become a normalised part of society?Guest: David Lewis- Executive Director of corruption watch Guest: Father Smangaliso Mkhatswa – Chairperson of the Moral Regeneration programmeAccording to a Survey by the Ethics Institute of South Africa, Most South Africans pay bribes At least 75% of South Africans who were asked for a bribe ended up paying one, according to a survey conducted by the Ethics Institute of SA (EthicsSA).The average traffic bribe costs around R200, it found, while most bribes were offered in Limpopo province.Professor Deon Rossouw, CEO of EthicsSA, said the 75 percent figure was worrying. "Virtually everybody agrees that not enough is being done to combat bribery in the country, but perhaps we should be talking more about people’s individual responsibility not to participate in bribery," he said in a statement. The survey, which was conducted with 6 380 respondents in Massmart stores in Gauteng, Durban, Cape Town and Polokwane, conversely found that 25% of people did not pay bribes when asked to do so. It also found that 26% of respondents knew of someone who had been asked for a bribe in the past year. Most bribes (36%) were reportedly to avoid traffic offences, followed by bribes for jobs (17%), with unskilled and semi-skilled workers being most vulnerable to bribe requests in order to obtain jobs.