GroundUp has experienced first hand the Road Accident Fund’s (RAF) notorious lack of responsiveness. A source provided us with a report detailing several cases of serious maladministration, nepotism and intimidation of whistleblowers and other staff at the fund. The report, compiled by a whistleblower at the RAF, requested the fund’s leadership to forward it to the Special Investigating Unit (SIU).
Our source also made allegations against two senior figures at the RAF, which if proven, raise questions about them continuing to hold office.
GroundUp has now waited for well over a month for the RAF to answer our questions about the allegations.
On 21 June we sent senior manager media and public relations Linda Rulashe a redacted version of the whistleblower’s report, a list of questions arising from the report, and two further queries about other allegations.
Rulashe responded promptly, saying she had directed the questions to the RAF managers concerned.
Since then, every week Rulashe says she is still not in a position to answer our questions.
These are our questions:
1. Was the attached information given to RAF officials, Ms Msibi, Mr Songelwa, Ms Cornelius and Ms Rammabi and if so when? Did they investigate it/hand it to the SIU?
2. Are the allegations in no 2 (of the whistleblower report) accurate and if so what has happened in connection with this contract?
3. What has occurred regarding no 3 (an allegation which we may not yet publicly disclose). And why did this...
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