South Africans who blow the whistle face retaliation and murder: their stories over five decades

By Ugljesa Radulovic, Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Johannesburg
Tina Uys, Professor of Sociology, University of Johannesburg

South Africa’s long history of wrongdoing spans from Willem Adriaan van der Stel’s days of running a corrupt trading monopoly to present-day South Africa. Van der Stel was the second Governor of the Cape Dutch Colony, from 1699 to his removal in 1707.

Whistleblowers have been at the core of exposing these instances of corruption.

Public whistleblowing was rare under apartheid (1948-1994). But with…

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