BUSINESS MAVERICK: Business Against Corruption: Focus on whistleblower superstars and the costs of graft

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BUSINESS MAVERICK: Business Against Corruption: Focus on whistleblower superstars and the costs of graft By Ed Stoddard

Gordhan, who gave the opening keynote address, spoke about old-fashioned accountability — something that certainly seemed to be in short supply during the lost Zuma years.Whether you are in the private or public sector, at the end of the day we are talking about human behaviour. You have a choice to become rotten or not. Every one of us has a choice to participate in corrupt activity or not.

That puts things in perspective — while a corrupt few have been enriched, the country as a whole would be richer without this scourge, with more funds available for education or health or roads or housing, and have a better debt-to-GDP ratio, the kind of thing that rating agencies and lenders focus on.

Cynthia Stimpel, the SAA whistleblower and former group treasurer, spoke movingly about the “extreme support” she received from her family and how she had a sense of purpose when the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse took up her cause after she was suspended for doing the right thing. “We need whistleblowers to come forward,” OUTA CEO Wayne Duvenage told the conference.

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Nobody prosecuted so whats the point. At best they are assasinated. Small fry prosecuted and major crime beneficiaries run the country .

the untouchable God him

The man above the law🙌🏿🔥🔥🔥

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