Johannesburg – Esethu Hasane, the whistleblower who uncovered irregularities involving millions of rand spent on questionable communications contracts by the Department of Transport, has written a book detailing the anomalies.
The book titled “Protected Disclosure” details how Hasane blew the whistle on the department’s dubious payment of more than R15 million to three live streaming suppliers.
Released today, Monday, 9 November 2026, the book is Hasane’s account of what happened when he refused to sign off on the payment.
“I declined to authorise over R15 million in irregular procurement within the National Department of Transport because the transactions did not meet statutory requirements,” writes Hasane.
“The institutional response was not corrective compliance, but systematic reprisal.
“When an anonymous grievance demanding my termination was forensically traced to my supervisor’s official computer, I executed my legal duty and made a protected disclosure.”
Hasane details the troubles he endured all because he chose to do the right thing.
He writes about the cost of refusing to sign the dodgy deal and provides a documentary record of this administrative failure and the daily subversion of the rule of law within a state department.
The book relies strictly on the evidentiary record, reproducing the primary documents directly on the page.
It contains the internal correspondence, metadata, forensic reports, and court records.
This is a must-read for corruption busters and individuals wanting to know how good people are coerced into doing wrong things.
