Solly Moeng | There's one way out of corruption, and SA isn't taking it | Business

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OPINION | International best practice in anti-corruption strategy has found that protection and support of whistle-blowers are the cheapest and most effective tools to fight corruption. Why aren't we using them? asks Solitoliquido.

South Africa has, over the past two decades at least, seen countless citizens - some armed with specialised, desperately needed, academic qualifications and many years of field experience, and many ordinary state and private sector employees, all driven by a strong sense of"public interest" - being driven out of the labour force and, in some cases, the country for daring to act in the good interest of the public.

Fearing that the illicit funds paid into their bank accounts could be taken away –"easy come, easy go style" - many rent-seeking"entrepreneurs" linked to such companies have been quick to go on buying sprees for expensive cars, properties, clothing, jewellery, and holidays in exotic destinations with stays in high-end hotels and resorts before they started delivering work in accordance with the contracts they signed.

Unlike its apartheid predecessor, the post-1994 'democratic' state might not have known, official, programs to go after citizens who stand in the path of corruption, but many such acts have been known to be carried out – ostensibly without official sanction – by individuals using state resources. It was also once used by Matshela Koko against Sikonathi Mantshantsha. SLAPP suits have recently been outlawed by the Constitutional Court. That may deter SLAPP suits, but until the corrupt are prosecuted and jailed, they will find other ways to retaliate. Other tools used by those implicated in corruption are character assassination through the media or, increasingly, assassination through hired guns known as iZinkabi.

Well-known cases in this area include former National Director of Public Prosecutions, Advocate Vusi Pikoli, who had to part ways with auditing firm, SizweNtsalubaGobodo, after the latter was reportedly threatened by the ANC with losing government contracts if it kept him as a partner.

 

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Solitoliquido Whistle-blowers get killed how are you going to protect them

Solitoliquido Because the ones whp must use this are the corrupt ones

Solitoliquido One simple reason. The ANC only survives through corruption. That's it's funding model. Take away SOEs, and MPs relatives getting huge government tenders and massively inflating prices, and the ANC is completely broke.

Solitoliquido Maybe it is because corruption has become an acceptable culture in corners of our societies.

Solitoliquido Because the ANC doesn’t want to fight corruption

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