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International whistleblower awards honour four South Africans

Babita Deokaran, Thabiso Zulu, Francois van der Westhuizen and Pieter Snyders received international recognition at awards hosted by the Blueprint for Free Speech

  • Luke Feltham
2 min read
Undeterred: Whistleblower Thabiso Zulu sleeps in different locations every night to evade assassination. (Rogan Ward)
ACTIVISM

Story of a whistleblower: ‘Baba, do you think you are about to die?

Whistleblower Thabiso Zulu can’t explain his situation to his son, but continues to expose wrongdoing and show solidarity with others

  • 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
BOOK EXTRACT

Extract: Mandy Wiener’s ‘The Whistleblowers’ shows the cost of speaking out

In this extract from journalist Mandy Wiener’s latest book she examines the death of ANC Youth League member Sindiso Magaqa in KwaZulu-Natal

  • Mandy Wiener
6 min read
Reflections on power: Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke has raised legitimate concerns.
GLEBELANDS HOSTELS

Assassins target Moerane witnesses

Protection is vital after a tip-off that those testifying at the commission on killings in KwaZulu-Natal may also be killed

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
What we know is that women’s already abrogated land rights are made even worse by the land tenure disaster. (Madelene Cronje/M&G)
ANC KWAZULU NATAL

Bodyguards ‘used as KZN hitmen’

As a wall of steel secures ANC top brass, the probe into political killings hears explosive allegations

  • Paddy Harper
5 min read
Thabiso Zulu claims his warnings to the police ahead of the spate of killings fell on deaf ears.
ANC KWAZULU NATAL

KZN ANC ‘did nothing to stop graft that led to murder’

Thabiso Zulu, friend of murdered Umzimkhulu councillor Sindiso Magaqa, spent two days briefing the Moerane Commission about corruption in the region

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
Outgoing Ethiopian premier Hailemariam Desalegn.
ANCYL

Corruption tied to political killings

The KwaZulu-Natal ANC councillor had been pushing to have a suspect tender probed by the Hawks.

  • Paddy Harper
6 min read