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Pollution: Sasol claims that it recognises and understands the environmental footprint associated with its activities and responsibly manages these
in a prudent and lawful way. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Parliament intensifies scrutiny of Sasol

Parliament’s portfolio committee on forestry, fisheries and environment is widening its oversight into Sasol after receiving protected disclosures from environmental…

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Paid the ultimate price, only for a half-baked Bill

The new whistleblower Bill is progressive but the consultation period (which closes on 14 May 2024) should be used to push for improved legal aid access, stronger independent…

Blazing: Social Development Minister Sisisi Tolashe who is also president of the ANC Women’s League, previously defended Netshipale’s hiring to parliament and said his appointment was within prevailing prescripts within public service. Photo: DSD New

UPDATED: Under siege minister charges DG

Minister Sisisi Tolashe suspended director general Peter Netshipale amid internal scandals, contract disputes and whistleblower allegations at the department of social development

The brutal assassination of Babita Deokaran was not an isolated crime. It was a symptom. A loud alarm in a system where corruption is not criminal aberration but an ecosystem

Editorial: Babita’s spirit must haunt them all

Deokaran will forever be remembered as a hero, a patriot who, in life as in death, has refused to be silenced. She died for the truth, not with it

Thabile Mbili is said to be the daughter of an ANC activist and former municipal manager at the Ray Nkonyeni local municipality on the province’s south coast who is now the head of the provincial department of human settlements.

Pressure on eThekwini to account for clandestine appointment of ANC-linked official

The Democratic Alliance and ActionSA want the city to probe how the former uMzumbe metro employee got a senior job

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Whistleblower: uMzumbe municipal official ‘parachuted’ to senior eThekwini post

The transfer allegedly took place without following due process

Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. (SAPS/X)

Madlanga commission wrestles with parliament to have Mkwanazi as first witness

The commission investigating police corruption has expedited the commencement of inquiry hearings in order to be the first to interview the KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner

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Local whistleblowers among global recipients of bravery awards

SA whistleblowers are ‘under siege’ and not protected by a law that is supposed to do so

The lives of people who try to stop or expose corruption are in danger and must be protected. (Getty Images)
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Disable the ‘thugocratic’ machine by backing whistleblowers

The lives of people who try to stop or expose corruption are in danger, as evidenced by the assassination of corruption investigators Cloete Murray and his son Thomas

Biswick Tiyamalu Kaswaswa
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The whistleblower’s burden: How a life is dragged into chaos

A Malawian accountant has paid a heavy price for blowing the whistle on corrupt oil deals and trade-based money laundering in South Sudan

Millions in fines if Sasol is found guilty of polluting the Vaal River system

State’s charge sheet fires six counts of environmental infractions at energy giant

Bulelani Ngcuka: A whistleblower?

The former national director of public prosecutions was a ‘witness bearer’ and a casualty of the ominous trend in the ANC’s increasing cultural aversion to truth

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OPINION | The whistleblowers who lose everything and why we owe them a deep dept

The whistleblowers who lose everything and why we owe them a deep dept

Does the police service want to ‘silence’ corruption-fighting whistleblower Patricia Mashale? (Djmilic)

Does the police service want corruption-fighting whistleblower Patricia Mashale to ‘disappear’?

The senior administrator in the Free State police service has reported corruption, irregular appointments and promotions, as well as crimes involving guns to her line managers or…

Speaking out: Then-public protector Thuli Madonsela is credited with bringing the term ‘state capture’ into common parlance. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

2021: The year of the whistleblower

Their role in our democracy has been invaluable, and they will need our protection and support

The brutal assassination of Babita Deokaran was not an isolated crime. It was a symptom. A loud alarm in a system where corruption is not criminal aberration but an ecosystem

Babita Deokaran: an obstacle for the corrupt

The family of health department employee Babita Deokaran are devastated at her assassination, but proud of her role as a ‘hero’ in exposing corruption

‘Saving the country’: Mzukisi Makatse outed R6-million of irregular lottery funding and says more protection is needed for those who fight graft

‘Don’t profile me; profile whistleblowing as a concept’

Man who outed R6m ‘irregular’ lottery funding believes more protection is needed for those who fight graft

Too little protection: Slain corruption fighter Babita Deokaran was not safe after making disclosures relating to personal protective equipment fraud at the Gauteng health department. (Fani Mahuntsi/Gallo Images)

Protected Disclosures Act: How did whistleblowing law go wrong?

Current legislation mainly protects employees and those who make allegations anonymously and offers too little protection for witnesses

In this photo illustration the Facebook logo seen displayed on a smartphone. (Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

How Facebook’s quest for profits is paved on hate and lies

New revelations by a whistleblower prove that the social media platform clearly understands its negative impact on society, but that profits are a greater lure than preserving…

Power vs truth: Former President Nelson Mandela (left) with Bantu Holomisa. The author writes that the ANC’s expulsion of Holomisa in 1996 was the inflection point that started the party’s long downward slide. (Beeld)

Action can dignify this tribute to Babita Deokaran, and whistleblowers everywhere

The president himself should halt the national malady of covering up corruption, whose origins can be traced to a key moment for the ANC in 1996