{"id":206235,"date":"2025-09-04T06:02:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T04:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-cant-afford-to-delay-whistleblower-legislation\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T06:02:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T04:02:32","slug":"zimbabwe-cant-afford-to-delay-whistleblower-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-cant-afford-to-delay-whistleblower-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Can&#8217;t Afford to Delay Whistleblower Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"74\">Zimbabwe&#8217;s Auditor-General has spoken again. The 2024 report on State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) and parastatals reveals the rot within public entities, including unsupported expenditure, non-delivery of goods, uncollected debts, and governance chaos. What&#8217;s striking is how predictable these findings have become perennial the same irregularities resurface. The problem is not that we do not know what&#8217;s wrong. It is those who see the wrongdoing first, the insiders, who have no safe way to speak up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509030264.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe&#8217;s Auditor-General has spoken again. The 2024 report on State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) and parastatals reveals the rot within public entities, including unsupported expenditure, non-delivery of goods, uncollected debts, and governance chaos. What&#8217;s striking is how predictable these findings have become perennial the same irregularities resurface. The problem is not that we do not know what&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[10271,258,256,8036,10831,257,254,7895,4686,421],"class_list":["post-206235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-afford","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-delay","tag-legislation","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-whistleblower","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}