South Africa’s transition from colonial rule to democracy has been marred by several corruption scandals and high crime rates. The National Development Plan 2030 identifies corruption as a significant threat to the rule of law. Corruption curtails the equitable distribution of resources by undermining core democratic principles and impeding social, economic, and political development.
Semantic scholar Peter B Jubb defines whistleblowing as a “deliberate non-obligatory act of disclosure, which gets onto [the] public record and is made by a person who has or had privileged access to data or information of an organisation, about non-trivial illegality or other wrongdoing whether actual, suspected or anticipated which implicates and is under the control of that organisation, to an external entity having [the] potential to rectify the wrongdoing”.
The government has adopted several strategies to promote accountability and combat corruption in the country. For instance, parliament has enacted laws that attempt to address the problem. In addition, the 1999 National Anti-Corruption Summit resolved “to develop, encourage and implement whistleblowing mechanisms, which include measures to protect persons from victimisation where they expose corruption and unethical practices”.
Furthermore, our country’s Constitution serves as the overarching framework for protecting whistleblowers. Akin to this, the Protected Disclosures Act (PDA) of 2000 is the key legislation relative to...
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