The Democratic Alliance (DA) calls on Justice Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi to table the long-promised Whistleblower Protections Bill in Parliament without delay.
In February, President Ramaphosa told the nation that the Bill would be introduced this financial year. Months later, nothing has happened.
Meanwhile, whistle-blowers, lawyers, and prosecutors and police officers are being assassinated in plain sight.
The brutal murder of Bouwer van Niekerk, shot dead at his law firm while working to expose corruption, has confirmed what South Africans already know: we are now living in a mafia state. Members of the SAPS, prosecutors, whistle-blowers, witnesses and members of the legal fraternity are being gunned down to subvert the course of justice, and it is being done with impunity.
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