Corruption Watch (CW) heeded the call to input into the next report of the Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders, which will be presented to the UN General Assembly in October 2023. Submissions were to centre on the specific challenges faced by women human rights defenders (WHRDs) working in conflict, post-conflict, or crisis-affected settings. With Read more >
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World Whistle-blower Day is marked every year on 23 June. It’s tempting to say we ‘celebrate’ it, but in today’s world whistle-blowing is no cause for celebration – especially not for those who report and expose corruption in an increasingly hostile space. The very fact that we need to have whistle-blowers is in itself no Read more >
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In recent years South Africans have been stunned by a spate of murders of high-profile individuals – gangsters and crime fighters alike. We think immediately of Babita Deokaran in 2021, Muzi Manyathi in 2022, Cloete and Tom Murray in 2023, Mpumalanga crime boss Clyde Mnisi also in 2023 and his widow two days after his Read more >
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By Janine Erasmus The life of an activist in South Africa is as fraught with danger as that of a whistle-blower. Both stand up to corruption and in so doing, put their safety, and even their lives, on the line. Both suffer abuse, ridicule, and harassment from the perpetrators of corruption as well as the Read more >
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Justice minister Ronald Lamola has paid tribute to South Africa’s whistle-blowers. Speaking on 6 February at the hybrid conference on Countering the Corrupt – Reform of the Criminal Justice Administration in South Africa, Lamola said: “You are the true embodiment of the famous saying by British philosopher John Stuart Mill: ‘Bad men need nothing more Read more >
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By Kwazi Dlamini Martha Ngoye has decried President Cyril Ramaphosa’s promise to protect whistle-blowers in South Africa, saying it does nothing to make those who decide to do right feel safe and protected. Ngoye, group head of the legal department of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa), is currently on suspension pending the Read more >
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By Kwazi Dlamini Today, 23 June, is World Whistleblower Day. It is another chance for us to acknowledge and appreciate the immense importance of blowing the whistle on corruption, and salute the courage of those who choose to come forward. Because whistle-blowing is one of the most effective ways to detect and prevent corruption, malfeasance, Read more >
CORRUPTION NEWS
By Kwazi Dlamini Today, 23 June, is World Whistle-blower Day. It is another chance for us to acknowledge and appreciate the immense importance of blowing the whistle on corruption, and salute the courage of those who choose to come forward. Because whistle-blowing is one of the most effective ways to detect and prevent corruption, malfeasance, Read more >
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“I do think the most valuable way both of rewarding and protecting whistle-blowers is to make of them seriously high-profile characters.” These are the words of Corruption Watch’s former executive director David Lewis, speaking in early March at a webinar hosted by the Mail & Guardian and titled Amend South Africa’s legislation to include rewards Read more >