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Chuck Stephens: Sleeping with a loaded gun…

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Activist and author Chuck Stephens of the Desmond Tutu Centre for Leadership sleeps with a loaded gun as he endures years of vengeful persecution since he blew the whistle on corruption in 2011. In this interview with BizNews, he describes what happened after he reported “nefarious activity” in the Community Work Programme in Mpumalanga. “I'm a target. And I think of Babita Deokaran (The Department of Health whistleblower who was murdered). And I see what happened to (Alexei) Navalny (the opposition politician murdered) in Russia…Eventually, if people hate you enough and they've got power, they're going to sequester you and they're going to take you out. And that's what I'm facing now.”
6 Mar 2024 6AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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