Mail & Guardian
Mail & Guardian
tiro holelelatest news & developments
Martha Ngoye appearing at the Zondo Comission – Supplied
MARTHA NGOYE

When whistleblowers win the facts but lose the law

Prasa’s ‘lawfare’ raises troubling questions about whether South Africa’s legal system is protecting those who expose corruption

  • John G Clarke
8 min read
Stranger than fiction: Whistleblowers Martha Ngoye (above) and Tiro Holele testified at the Zondo commission about events at the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa and are now facing charges for ‘bringing the organisation into disrepute’. Photo: Papi Morake/Gallo
LAWFARE

Whistleblowers: Your testimony makes South Africa proud

Those brave people who speak truth to power elevate the Constitution to more than just a text.

  • John G Clarke
8 min read
(Graphic: John McCann)
CYRIL RAMAPHOSA

Zondo: Prasa and SAA whistleblowers needed protection

The report recommends that the government establishes a public procurement anti-corruption agency to ‘formulate measures for the making of reports by whistleblowers and for their…

  • Tunicia Phillips
10 min read
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)
ANGELO AGRIZZI

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

  • John G Clarke
13 min read
(Graphic: John McCann)
ATHOL WILLIAMS

Richard Calland: Overhaul the law to protect whistleblowers

People who don’t turn a blind eye are making an often deadly decision. Babita Deokaran is one

  • Richard Calland
8 min read
Tiro Holele refuted evidence by former Prasa chairperson Lucky Montana that he was central to the irregular R3.5-billion deal and suggested that he was deliberately circumvented when it was approved. (Photo by Sharon Seretlo/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
AUSWELL MASHABA

Montana lied about former tender committee chair’s role in Swifambo locomotive deal, Zondo hears

Tiro Holele said the former Prasa head was part of a pattern where executives mastermind irregular deals but blame subordinates

  • Emsie Ferreira
3 min read