Athol Williams packed his bags and left the country when a fellow whistleblower was killed. Like many others, he feels abandoned, isolated and afraid

After blowing the whistle on some of the most powerful and allegedly corrupt figures in South African politics and business, Athol Williams expected state prosecutors to fall on his evidence and offer him protection.

Instead, his two-day testimony to a judicial sleaze inquiry into the ransacking of state institutions during Jacob Zuma’s presidency was met with an unsettling silence and then warnings that he was in “the crosshairs of many who wanted me silenced”.

Now jobless and in exile alone after fleeing the country last month, he told The Times from a secret location that he is counting the cost of “doing the right thing”.

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