PHILISIWE Mthethwa was in a buoyant mood this week after she was “cleared” by a Deloitte investigation into 23 claims of corruption, nepotism and various other evils at the parastatal she heads, the National Empowerment Fund (NEF).Speaking to 702’s Bruce Whitfield, Mthethwa, wife of Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa, said she was petrified of doing anything that could be seen as dodgy. “I’m so scared of going to jail, so I would never,” she said. “Can you imagine: my husband would have to come and arrest me.”She then hit on an altogether more serious topic: how easy it had become, especially in government-owned companies, to “blow the whistle” on someone without a shred of evidence.“We have allowed some of these whistle-blowers to actually use this whistle-blowing policy as an instrument of harming other people’s characters and reputation. So if anyone wants to harm your reputation, all they do now is they accuse you of being corrupt,” she said.Mthethwa is right, of course. And the pro...
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