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The Whistleblower House is a new organisation is offering to support and protect the brave people who come forward and speak out on corruption. (Gallo Images/Getty Images)
The Whistleblower House is a new organisation is offering to support and protect the brave people who come forward and speak out on corruption. (Gallo Images/Getty Images)

If you blow the whistle on state capture, you live in fear. 

These are the words of Athol Williams, a former partner at ?management consultancy firm Bain & Co. He blew the whistle on the company in 2019, testifying before the Zondo Commission about how it had plundered the coffers of the SA Revenue Service (Sars) during the state capture years.

Athol fled South Africa after he received death threats for opening the can of worms and is now living in hiding. Yet although his life has been turned upside down, he is one of the lucky ones. 

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