R2K Whistleblowers 2014: Moses Tshake
“I am very sad. He was a good son to me” – David Tshake, father of Moses Tshake Moses Tshake, a senior auditor for the Free State’s agriculture department, died in May 2013 after...
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by Bongani Khoza · Published January 1, 2014 · Last modified April 8, 2019
“I am very sad. He was a good son to me” – David Tshake, father of Moses Tshake Moses Tshake, a senior auditor for the Free State’s agriculture department, died in May 2013 after...
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by Bongani Khoza · Published January 1, 2014 · Last modified April 8, 2019
“It is an attack on our right to speak out and struggle for a better world.” – CSAAWU statement CSAAWU, a farming union in rural parts of the Western Cape, fought off a ‘defamation’...
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by Bongani Khoza · Published January 1, 2014 · Last modified April 8, 2019
“… it is time for South Africans to reflect and speak out. I feel I have a duty to expose the truth” Last year attorney Kate Painting revealed that she had resigned from the...
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by Bongani Khoza · Published January 1, 2014 · Last modified April 8, 2019
Segomoco Sibambato, a former manager at the Transport, Education and Training Authority, was fired after raising concerns that the CEO had flouted procurement policies. The procurement of services from Pretoria-based IT firm Mondial was...
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by Bongani Khoza · Published January 1, 2014 · Last modified April 8, 2019
“If we get killed, let it be known what we stood up for” – AbM’s tribute to Nkululeko Gwala Housing activist Nkululeko Gwala was assassinated on 26 June 2013, allegedly after uncovering evidence of...
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by Bongani Khoza · Published January 1, 2014 · Last modified April 8, 2019
“My family and I will never rest until the truth is out in the open.” Senior physicist, Mojalefa Murphy says he was forced to resign over 12 years ago from the National Research Foundation...
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by Bongani Khoza · Published January 1, 2014 · Last modified April 8, 2019
Clinton Redman, a former licensing official at the Eastern Cape gambling board was forced to quit his job after revealing irregularities in the appointment of the current CEO. In 2013, an investigation by...
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by Bongani Khoza · Published January 1, 2014 · Last modified April 8, 2019
“Workers are concerned about the department and would want for Pikitup to be free from corruption and nepotism.” – SAMWU statement In August 2013, a joint investigation by the Sunday Times and Corruption Watch...
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by Bongani Khoza · Published January 1, 2014 · Last modified April 8, 2019
Since appearing in R2K’s Whistleblower Calendar in 2013 – as the man who ‘blew the whistle’ on collusion between South Africa’s biggest bread manufacturers to fix the price of bread – Imraahn Mukaddam has...
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by Bongani Khoza · Published January 1, 2014 · Last modified April 8, 2019
“I believe that I have throughout my time at Opmed [the State Security Agency’s medical scheme] conducted myself with the utmost integrity and honesty, and my only failing was that I exposed fraud and...
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