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DAILY MAVERICK WEBINAR: Law is weaponised against ... - Daily Maverick

The Protected Disclosures Act does not do enough to protect whistle-blowers – it is in fact used to frustrate and intimidate them – but the courts and legal fraternity still have a duty to ensure it is not misused, webinar hears.

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‘The role of whistle-blowers is well recognised, including by the Zondo Commission and the President. Yet whistle-blowers experience many common forms of retaliation and suffer for exposing corruption. However, there are other ways the corrupt legally retaliate against whistle-blowers, that are costly, emotionally taxing and have led some to impoverishment,” Maverick Citizen editor Mark Heywood told a webinar whistle-blowing on Tuesday.

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Heywood was in conversation with experts in the field Avani Singh, who is an attorney of the High Court of South Africa and a digital rights specialist, and Mthabisi Moyo, an anti-corruption and human resources governance principal consultant.

“Corruption is a crime of calculation, not passion, and happens under the cover of darkness and not in the public eye,” Moyo said. He explained that whistle-blowing has been...



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