Public Service and Administration Director-General, Ms Yoliswa Makhasi says without whistle-blowers, it will be difficult to detect all forms of corrupt activities in both the private and public service space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking at the regional Workshop on Transforming Societies through Anti- Corruption Innovation in Public Procurement and Whistle-blower Protection in Cape Town ON 09 February 2022, Ms Makhasi said the country\u2019s National Anti-Corruption Strategy placed the whistle-blower protection high on the agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhistle-blowing is a powerful tool in the fight against corruption, without which it will be difficult to detect unethical behaviour, corruption or maladministration. Now of late, treatment of whistle-blowers in South Africa leaves much to be desired,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Challenges identified<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The DPSA Director-General said legislation places responsibility on whistle-blower to take court action to protect his\/her rights, adding that there are no effective criminal sanctions for serious transgressions of the legislation by employers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLack of ability to make disclosures anonymously \/ confidentially. Consequently, focus is on the whistle-blower rather than the matter being reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOften reports of the National Anti-Corruption Hotline are referred back to Departments for investigation; and generally, there are not enough protection measures,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Solutions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As part of solution, Ms Makhasi said there should be improvement on the provisions of the current legislation (PDA); that a central reporting agency\/whistle-blower agency (also contained in the NACS) must be created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe must also create a culture of whistleblowing at institutional level\u2026including government departments, this must be done to create safer disclosure platforms (confidential); monitor and review the effectiveness of existing hotlines,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Public Service and Administration Director-General, Ms Yoliswa Makhasi says without whistle-blowers, it will be difficult to detect all forms of corrupt activities in both the private and public service space. Speaking at the regional Workshop on Transforming Societies through Anti- Corruption Innovation in Public Procurement and Whistle-blower Protection in Cape Town ON 09 February 2022, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-governance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2024,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions\/2024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}