In 2000, South Africa became the third country in the world to adopt comprehensive legal protections for whistleblowers, following the US and UK. Similar to the UK, South Africa’s Public Disclosure Act requires victimized whistleblowers to file lawsuits in order to be reinstated to their jobs and compensated for financial and other losses.
Nearly two decades later, the Government Accountability Project looks at 30 court cases filed by whistleblowers to answer the question: how well – if at all – are employees in South Africa protected and compensated? Has the law achieved what it set out to do?
Read the Government Accountability Project’s full report here: