Balindile Shezi & Siphamandla Dube, Author at CHRO South Africa

Balindile Shezi & Siphamandla Dube

Balindile Shezi is an executive at ENS in the employment law practice. She specialises in South African employment law related matters and has experience advising on issues arising from the labour relations act, the basic conditions of employment act and the employment equity act. Siphamandla Dube is an executive at ENS in the employment practice. He specialises in collective and individual labour disputes, as well as the implementation of employment equity and labour policies.

Blocking the exit: Weaponising protected disclosures to delay disciplinary proceedings

With the current scourge of corruption and other forms of unlawful conduct, it has become more important than ever to ensure the protection of whistleblowers. From a workplace perspective, the Protected Disclosures Act, 2000 (“PDA”) protects whistleblowers and provides that: ‘No employee may be subjected to any occupational detriment by his or her employer on account, or partly on account, of having made a protected disclosure’.

16 October 2026