This article comments on the suitability of both the 2003 Country Corruption Assessment Report (CCAR) and Public Service Anti-corruption Strategy recommendations to combat public sector corruption in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). Anti-corruption measures should be informed by the nature and causes of corruption. In a survey undertaken in the same year that the CCAR was published (2003) the responses of 21 government managers and 11 anti-corruption agents suggest that corruption is ubiquitous throughout KZN's public sector and is manifested mainly in the forms of fraud, theft, bribery and nepotism. This corruption - according to respondents - is motivated primarily by greed, a lack of ethics, inadequate checks and balances and difficult economic conditions. The study finds, in addition, that KZN public sector corruption is both a supply (initiated by officials) and demand (initiated by private citizens) driven phenomenon. The CCAR recommen