ActionSA to formally propose new legislation to protect and incentivise whistleblowers

JOHANNESBURG - ActionSA said that it will formally propose new legislation aimed at protecting and incentivising whistleblowers. 

This comes as the party commemorated the life of Babita Deokaran, the health department official who, according to the party, paid the ultimate price for exposing corruption.

Deokaran was assassinated outside her home in Mondeor, south of Johannesburg, in 2021, just weeks after flagging over R850 million in suspicious payments linked to Tembisa hospital in Ekurhuleni.

ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba said that far more needs to be done to protect whistleblowers.

"ActionSA is proud to announce that we are hard at work on formally introducing a private members' bill that will not only strengthen the fight against corruption, but more importantly, ensure greater protection and incentivisation for whistleblowers who risk everything to expose criminality.”