Road Accident Fund fails to respond to whistleblower allegations
GroundUp experiences first hand the RAF’s dysfunction
GroundUp has experienced first hand the Road Accident Fund’s (RAF) notorious lack of responsiveness. A source provided us with a report detailing several cases of serious maladministration, nepotism and intimidation of whistleblowers and other staff at the fund. The report, compiled by a whistleblower at the RAF, requested the fund’s leadership to forward it to the Special Investigating Unit (SIU).
Our source also made allegations against two senior figures at the RAF, which if proven, raise questions about them continuing to hold office.
GroundUp has now waited for well over a month for the RAF to answer our questions about the allegations.
On 21 June we sent senior manager media and public relations Linda Rulashe a redacted version of the whistleblower’s report, a list of questions arising from the report, and two further queries about other allegations.
Rulashe responded promptly, saying she had directed the questions to the RAF managers concerned.
Since then, every week Rulashe says she is still not in a position to answer our questions.
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