Mandy Wiener and The Whistle Blowers of South Africa!

She is one of the country’s best known and most credible journalists and authors, she’s worked as a multi-award-winning reporter with Eyewitness News, appeared on all sorts of radio stations and she’s even been crowned as The CNN African Radio Journalist of the Year… and now Mandy Wiener has joined the Good Things Guy podcast again to chat about her new book – The Whistle Blowers.

She has also earned a reputation for her work exposing South Africa’s deepest darkest Underworld.

This incredible South African specialises in investigative reporting and legal matters, having extensively covered both the corruption trial of former national police commissioner Jackie Selebi and the infamous Brett Kebble murder trial.

Mandy Wiener’s new book, The Whistle Blowers, shines a light on the plight of this special class of justice-seeker, advocating for changes in legislation, organisational support and social attitudes in order to embolden more potential whistleblowers to find the courage to step up.

“Whistleblowers are seldom seen as heroes. Instead, they are often viewed through a negative lens, described as troublemakers, disloyal employees, traitors, snitches and, in South Africa, as impimpis or informers. They risk denigration and scorn, not to mention dismissal from their positions and finding their careers in tatters.

With corruption and fraud endemic in democratic South Africa, whistleblowers have played a pivotal role in bringing wrongdoing to light. They have provided an invaluable service to society through disclosures about cover-ups, malfeasance and wrongdoing. Their courageous acts have resulted in the recovery of millions of rands to the fiscus and to their fellow citizens as well as improved transparency and accountability for office bearers and politicians. Some would argue it was whistleblowing that brought down a president and the corrupt ‘state capture’ regime.”

And she joined the Good Things Guy show AGAIN to figure out how all of this could possibly be a good thing.

Interview filmed in partnership with Mark Sham at the Suits and Sneakers studios in the heart of Sandton.