A South African Police Service corruption 'whistle-blower' Patricia Morgan-Mashale says she fears for life and hasn't received any protection from government. This comes after she received death threats for  exposing  police corruption. The former Free State Saps administrative clerk, was reportedly dismissed from her job last year and has been in hiding since February. She says she survived two assassination attempts. Mashale says she is pleading for protection from government, after claiming she blew the whistle on massive corruption within the police service which would implicate a number of high-ranking officials. 

 

This brings to mind  Babita Deokaran, the chief director of financial accounting who was at the forefront of fighting and exposing alleged personal protective equipment (PPE) tender corruption in the Gauteng Health Department,  who was shot dead outside her Johannesburg home last year.  Are whistle blowers safe ? Should they do the honourable thing and report corruption or should they think about their families and lives? And where does that leave us as a nation that is trying to root out corruption? For this conversation we spoke to  Ben Theron, Executive Director of The Whistle Blower House