Abstract
One of the issues that has preoccupied the minds of researchers in Zimbabwe has always been the issue of governance and corruption. Rebuilding trust is critical to Zimbabwe in improving governance, public administration, combating corruption, and reconnecting the citizens with the government. There is, therefore, an urgent need to come up with viable blueprints for good governance in Zimbabwe. This paper seeks to interrogate issues of politics and ethics because they have a bearing on the realisation or lack thereof of the Zimbabwean Vision 2030.
TopBackground And Conceptual Framework
It is the argument of this paper that corruption can be effectively contained after comprehending the human behaviour. It is important to start by discussing the state of nature of human beings in order to deduce the ethical and political perspectives that form the environment upon which corruption thrives.
Key Terms in this Chapter
Ethics: Ethics refers to what is morally right or wrong. That is socially acceptable behaviour.
National Framework: National framework refers to the constitutional, legislative, regulatory, institutional arrangements, processes and systems that underpin the governance of an organisation.
State of Nature: ‘State of Nature’ is an imaginary state wherein there is no political institution and administrative organisation existing in the society and the people do their own business. Since the instinct of love and defense of one’s self is very strong in everybody, the people would be at each other’s throats and would destroy one another.
Corruption: Corruption is an act of dishonesty committed by way of omission or commission which is intended to implicitly or explicitly vary the actions and accepted societal propriety in order to gratify one’s egotistical interests.
Politics: Politics is the struggle for the acquisition of power in order to decide who gets what, how, and when.