RUSTENBURG – Employees from both the public and private sectors today has vowed to do everything in their power to blow the whistle on corruption in their workplace by reporting it to the relevant institutions.Hundreds of senior politicians and officials in both private and public sector, who attended the 3

rd North West Anti-Corruption Round Table Conference on Thursday, spoke in one voice to distancing themselves from taking part in corruption, directly or indirectly.

Fraud and corruption was identified as major contributor towards rendering most municipalities dysfunctional in the province.

The Executive Mayor of the Bojanala Platinum District Municipality, Councillor Louis Diremelo agreed that municipalities in the province are struggling to provide services to communities due to corruption.

“Corruption in our municipalities must be dealt with accordingly because if we don’t, our people will never receive proper services that must be due to them. Today is yet another step forward towards improving awareness of fighting corruption in our workplace,” he said.

Davhana Maselesele, an employee at the North West University, Mahikeng Campus also said everyone had a role to play in combating corruption and fraud, not only through education but by preventing it.

“It is our role both in the private and public service to act strongly against corruption.

Corruption has increase so high in our workplaces that if we do not do something about it will hamper development in our communities,” she said.

Chief Financial Officer in the Office of the Premier, Thapelo Masome also noted that corruption make the administration of the public service impossible.

He said corruption must be fought at all level especially in the public service.

“The best way of dealing with fraud and corruption is to deal with it at its earliest form in our organization.

We must instill and promote clean government at all cost in our institutions so that development must continue without any problems,” he said.