Whistleblower & Ethics
Protected disclosures with anonymity and mandatory escalation.
A PRECCA s.34 and Protected Disclosures Act case pipeline — capturing disclosures with anonymity controls, triaging by severity and escalating the R 100 000 PRECCA threshold to law enforcement.
What you get
- Anonymous intake
- Severity triage
- Mandatory referral
Why it matters
Protected disclosures, with the law's escalation built in.
Whistleblowing is the public sector's most powerful corruption-detection mechanism — and its most fragile, because it depends on protection. PRECCA s.34 makes it a criminal obligation to report knowledge of certain corrupt activities above R 100 000 to the police, and the Protected Disclosures Act shields employees who blow the whistle in good faith. King IV Principle 2 places ethical culture at the heart of governance. The discipline is to receive disclosures safely, triage them seriously, and escalate what the law requires escalated.
When intake is informal — a complaint to a manager, an email that gets buried — disclosers are exposed, cases vanish, and PRECCA-threshold matters that should have gone to the Hawks never do, leaving the Accounting Officer personally exposed. The chilling effect is real: if the first whistleblower is not protected, the next stays silent, and the corruption the system exists to surface stays hidden.
A protected-disclosure pipeline fixes the mechanics. Disclosures arrive via hotline, email, portal or in person with anonymity controls; triage assigns severity and an investigator; PRECCA-threshold cases auto-flag for SAPS or DPCI referral; and substantiated cases generate forensic and consequence-management records. The discloser is protected and the law is followed.
Capabilities
What Whistleblower & Ethics does.
Anonymous intake
Disclosures via hotline, email, portal or in-person with anonymity controls.
Severity triage
Triage assigns severity and an investigator.
Mandatory referral
PRECCA-threshold cases auto-flag for SAPS / DPCI referral.
Outcomes
What changes for your team.
Tangible improvements an entity sees once Whistleblower & Ethics replaces the spreadsheet.
How it works
From data to defensible signal.
Want to see Whistleblower & Ethicsrunning on your entity's own data?
Enquire nowWho it's for
- Ethics Officer and Forensic Investigations
- Chief Audit Executive
- Accounting Officer for PRECCA s.34 reporting
- Audit Committee receiving disclosure statistics
Legislative basis
- PRECCA 12 of 2004 s.34 — mandatory reporting of corrupt activities above R 100 000
- Protected Disclosures Act 26 of 2000 — protection for good-faith disclosures
- Companies Act s.159 — whistleblower protection
- King IV Principle 2 — ethical culture and conduct
FAQ
Questions teams ask before they sign up.
Can disclosures be made anonymously?
Yes. Intake supports anonymity controls across hotline, email, portal and in-person channels, so a discloser can come forward without revealing their identity.
How do we meet the PRECCA s.34 reporting duty?
Cases above the R 100 000 PRECCA threshold auto-flag for SAPS / DPCI referral, so the Accounting Officer's mandatory-reporting obligation is surfaced rather than missed.
Does our disclosure data stay private?
Yes. All disclosure data remains within your tenant boundary. The Audit Committee receives statistics without exposing discloser identities.
Want to know more about Whistleblower & Ethics?
Tell us about your entity and we'll be in touch with a walkthrough, pricing and next steps — everything you see is traceable to source.