Your soapbox debate

RESPONSES TO IMPOVERISHED STATE CAPTURE WHISTLE-BLOWERS BEG BANKS FOR RELIEF!

A dedicated fund in support of whistle-blowers should be budgeted for from the fiscus. Banks (and any businesses still capable) should be encouraged to contribute to it. Darryl van Blerk

These people are heroes ... It’s a pity private business can’t see them as such. Sanjeevan Moodley

This should become 100% the responsibility of Government. In private companies the company itself should be responsible for and accountable by law. There are

qualified people in every nation, much more able to work out a fair solution! Helen Lachenicht

These are precisely the kind of people we should be celebrating and desperately need more of and SHOULD be employed in State Owned Enterprises and Public Enterprises. These are our heroes!!! They need our gratitude. I am outraged and devastated. Lauren Buch

A very revealing article. We certainly need to consider some form of compensation from the funds recovered, as some countries have done. Others need to be encouraged to speak up. Alan Beadle

This is such a just cause every citizen should be willing tocontribute to a fund to support these outstanding people who are willing to stand up for the truth.

There must be a person or group who can start such a fund, crowdfunding or whatever … the government will never do it (it will be syphoned off with elaborate schemes … like Covid or asbestos) CJ Grobler

Utterly shameful. These are the very people one should be employing – courageous, principled, ethical. They are at the bleeding edge of the war on corruption. How about awarding businesses which employ such people? And what about targeted programmes to give such people legal support, and to have them provide formal insight into the circumstances they found were necessary to whistle-blow – perhaps as employees of a public/private partnership or anti-corruption centre which actively assists and educates the public, business and state institutions on corruption and its consequences. Richard Breytenbach 100% agree. It is a shameful indictment on SA businesses and their owners that these “courageous, principled, ethical” people cannot find employment!! SA business would be much better off if more whistle-blowers came forward, and as a result they should be encouraged to do so, not the other way round!! Setting up a fund, whether it be Government or private-sponsored, or both, sounds like a great idea! Steve Smith