WHISTLE-BLOWERS
MAGDA WIERZYCKA: Lily-livered corporate SA is failing nation’s true heroes
‘Make no mistake, the time will come when whistle-blowers will be called what they truly are — SA’s real heroes’
Last week, when I heard that Sage, a respected international company, had fired the bravest whistle-blower of them all, Bianca Goodson, I really had to wonder at what goes on in the minds of South African executives. Do they realise what is happening in SA? Do they care? Or do they think it is business as normal? Do they think the economy will miraculously recover by itself? Do they think they are immune to the poverty around us, to a failing education system, to rising crime rates? Perhaps they do. Perhaps white monopoly capital is not about economic power in the hands of a few, but rather the complacency of many white South Africans who are blind to the blatant inequality, lack of job creation and the lunacy of a government hellbent on looting the country blind. Why are the heroes of this tale not the leaders of large corporations with unlimited resources at their disposal, but rather the little people? The person who came into possession of the Gupta leaks e-mails and bravely rel...
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