2021 was a promising and demanding year. After Daily Maverick was forced to apologise to me and provide me with a right to reply of nearly 1500 words, there were two main developments :
- As a whistleblower that has suffered character assassination via fake news media in South Africa, I was vindicated and I was rewarded after persevering as a whistleblower. I was refocused, re grouped and my willpower got even stronger towards attaining my goals.
- The South African public had a fair chance to read a balanced article, with my reply, the Daily Maverick apology, as well as rediscover the right side of history, that regrettably was distorted for them.
Through a brilliant human being, social worker, and whistleblower advocate, John Clarke in South Africa, I was able to exchange ideas as well as assist fellow whistleblowers in need. In fact, 2021 was the first year that a special recognition prize was given to 4 South Africans by BluePrint, and I was tasked to deal with them. One such award was given to the late Babita Deokaran, who tragically was assassinated prior to testifying in a high-profile case she had blown the whistle on. My thoughts went out to her teenage daughter, for whom she received the award. This is the same award that I received from Blueprint back in 2016, except on that occasion nobody in the South African media covered the event.
I further collaborated with John Clarke in order to assist many South African whistleblowers and human rights advocates, since I had gained experience in Europe with my involvement in advancing the whistleblower concept.
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A special recognition award given to me in 2016 by Blueprint for Free Speech.