The act of whistleblowing is when an organisational insider exposes wrongdoing to an authority that can address that wrongdoing (Near & Miceli, 1985). Wrongdoing can encompass any illegal, immoral or unethical activity that emerges from an organisation’s confines (Jubb, 1999). The actions of South African whistleblowers have, generally, brought about positive change in the country. Most prominently, that change has come in the form of whistleblowers shedding light on state capture, which involved a complex network of private actors and public officials influencing state affairs to exert control over the state for purposes of their own benefit (Radulovic, 2023c). Former President Jacob Zuma stepped down from his post due to the allegations of whistleblowers fingering him as the primary force driving the capture of the state (Radulovic, 2023c). However, even before revelations of state capture entered the public domain, whistleblowers played an integral role in exposing various forms of malfeasance, such as fraud and corruption, in South Africa (Uys, 2022). It must, nonetheless, be noted that the tendency for individuals to expose wrongdoing was uncommon in apartheid South Africa, with acts of disclosure becoming more prevalent after the country transitioned to democratic rule.

The behaviour change is essentially the by-product of a new post-apartheid Constitution (1996), which brought with it new laws. One law of particular importance to whistleblowers is that of the...

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