DA wants department-wide policy on whistleblower compensation

While the Democratic Alliance has welcomed the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition’s approach on compensating whistleblowers who suffer serious losses because of their contribution to cleaning up corruption, the party is calling for a department-wide policy. In a reply to a DA Parliamentary Question, Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition Parks Tau confirmed that the National Lotteries Commission will compensate whistleblowers who helped expose up to R2-billion of corrupt grants. DA spokesperson on Trade, Industry & Competition Toby Chance said the approach is not good enough that it only happens sporadically, and in this case only for the NLC.