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National Prosecuting Authority investigators executed fresh search warrants at Sasol’s Secunda operations this week while company executives appeared before Parliament, as investigators revealed the long-running criminal investigation into alleged pollution of the Vaal River has expanded. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy
ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME

Sasol halts answers to MPs after NPA raids Secunda operations with search warrants

A long-running criminal investigation into allegations that Sasol unlawfully polluted the Vaal River system took a dramatic new turn this week when National Prosecuting Authority…

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read
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
DFFE

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…

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read
(Graphic: John McCann)
BABITA DEOKARAN

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…

  • Rupert Candy
  • John Makate
3 min read
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
ALEXANDRA ABRAHAMS

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

  • Nkateko Joseph Mabasa
7 min read
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

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

  • Editorial
2 min read
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.
ACTIONSA

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

  • Sandile Motha
3 min read
(Graphic: John McCann)
CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS

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

The transfer allegedly took place without following due process

  • Sandile Motha
4 min read
Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. (SAPS/X)
AD HOC COMMITTEE

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

  • Nkateko Joseph Mabasa
5 min read
(Graphic: John McCann)
MO DOLLARS
Video

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

  • Umamah Bakharia
3 min read
The lives of people who try to stop or expose corruption are in danger and must be protected. (Getty Images)
HUMAN RIGHTS DAY
Video

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

  • John G Clarke
8 min read
Biswick Tiyamalu Kaswaswa
BISWICK TIYAMALU KASWASWA
Video

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

  • John G Clarke
8 min read
CHEMICALS

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

  • Sheree Bega
5 min read
ANDREW FEINSTEIN

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

  • John G Clarke
9 min read
(Graphic: John McCann)
ETHICAL LEADERSHIP

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

  • Marjorie Jobson
4 min read
Does the police service want to ‘silence’ corruption-fighting whistleblower Patricia Mashale? (Djmilic)
BHEKI CELE

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…

  • Mary de Haas
6 min read