I can only but laugh at anyone who thinks any initiative to stop corruption will be successful. It is simply the way things are done in every sphere of government from the ground up.
I recently engaged with a company who legitimately won a minor tender some 10'ish years ago and started the work required. In year 3 there was a new deployment to the respective sector and the first thing they did was to "evaluate" all contracts.
Shortly afterwards the company was informed they needed to "up" their BEE credentials and there was a specific company that needed to be given a 20% equity stake for them to comply. The adsurdity was that the company was already 100% black owned! Be that as it may the suggestion was refused and the shortly afterwards the legitimacy of the contract was disputed.
Jump ahead 5 years of legal battles with no work being done in terms of the contract and the company won their case with the high court declaring the contract valid and awarding costs of the entire process to the company.
The situation hasn't changed though. There are new deployees from government side but the story remains the same but now, they accept the validity of the contract, they are simply making it impossible for the work to be done by delaying the administrative part of the process. Indirectly word was sent to the company that if they want this burden to go away they simply need to issue a 20% shareholding to a specific company.
Now the company is heading back to court again in an attempt to get an order to force government to do their admin so that they can carry on and do their work.
It's pure extortion and sanctioned by those in power who provide cover and protection to the implementors.