Chief justice Raymond Zondo has urged the government to pay whistle-blowers who provide valuable information.
His stance comes after the National Prosecuting Authority's (NPA) Investigating Directorate (ID) recovered R2.5bn during state capture corruption probes.
Zondo, speaking at a National Anti-Corruption Advisory Council dialogue on Wednesday, said corruption in South Africa necessitated paying whistle-blowers.
“Whistle-blowers helped to stop state capture. Everybody talks about the protection of whistle-blowers, but all of you would be aware the commission went beyond that, recommending we incentivise them to blow the whistle,” he said.
In August, justice minister Ronald Lamola told parliament's portfolio committee on justice and correctional services that the ID recovered R2.5bn in state capture cases alone.
Zondo said whistle-blowers should receive a percentage of the money recovered when information they provided enabled investigators to crack cases.
“I wish that everybody could make such disclosures because it is the right thing, but our levels of corruption are such that I do not think we in SA can afford the luxury of saying we do not want information that is disclosed by whistle-blowers who want money.”
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