No protection for whistleblower, despite three threat analyses confirming the threat to her life, and at least two attempts on her life.

Free State police whistleblower Patricia Morgan-Mashale, who has been in hiding since February last year, has fled the country to an undisclosed location.

The former administration clerk in the South African Police Service’s firearms registry division in Bloemfontein fled South Africa on Friday.

She posted on Twitter that she has finally left the country, stating that she has been turned into a fugitive, after being accused of spreading false allegations against the police.

Catch me if you can

“Catch me if u can but my voice will remain a thunder in your heads until u come clean and give SA back to its rightful owners, not your R350 slaves, I’ll be back,” she declared.

In January The Citizen reported on Morgan-Mashale’s claims that she would be dead today if it were not for efforts of a lone crime intelligence officer who risked his own career to protect her.

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The whistleblower has never been offered protection, despite three threat assessments confirming the threat to her life, recommendations that she be protected, and at least two attempts on her life after blowing the whistle on senior officers involved in corruption.

Morgan-Mashale told The Citizen her nightmare began in 2020 after...

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