mrebunator

A VIDEO: On the Department of Transport’s public statement of this week. Thank you @eNCA , I’m indebted to your airtime, ( promise I won’t criticize you until 2027) I reported this procurement to Department management in May 2025. No action was taken for a year. On 19 May 2026, I made a formal protected disclosure, under the Protected Disclosures Act, to the Auditor-General, National Treasury, SCOPA, Parliament, and the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation. It was only after that disclosure that any action followed. The Auditor-General has since confirmed the substance of my disclosure: seven quotations for live-streaming services, each structured just below the R1 million competitive-bidding threshold, totalling R6.8 million, with R13.3 million paid to the same suppliers over two years. The Department disputed this. The Auditor-General’s conclusion, after considering that dispute, was that “the finding remains.” I had opposed and refused to authorise this arrangement before I reported it. The Department’s own internal investigation found that a senior official subsequently fabricated a letter, using a Department computer, in an attempt to have me dismissed. That finding is seventeen months old. He remains my supervisor. Imagine my shock, dismay and hurt when I learned that in the morning of 06 September 2026 when the same author of a fraudulent letter was authorized by the Director General to write a statement that says I am self victimizing, a statement contradicted by two Grievance reports written by external investigators , one is withheld from me, by a Legal Advice, its withheld from me and a Health assessment. There has never been a clear case of gaslighting. A clinical assessment commissioned by the Department has separately confirmed the harm this has caused me, and recommended a change to my reporting lines. That recommendation has not been implemented. The forensic record establishing the above, and the computer from which it was drawn, are now reported to be missing. This week, the Department publicly stated that my account of victimisation is without merit. That statement is inconsistent with its own investigator’s findings, its own grievance outcome, and its own clinical assessment. I have referred this matter to the Presidency, Parliament, the Auditor-General, and the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation. I have not yet been heard on the merits by any forum, and I am requesting, formally, the protection to which the law entitles me. #ProtectedDisclosure #WhistleblowerProtection #PublicAccountability