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Accountability

Report wrongdoing

Bribes, fraud, rigged tenders, misused public money and abuse of office can be reported to official bodies whose job is to act on them. Choose what happened to see who handles it and how to reach them. If you prefer, send it to Mandate SA: anonymously, and a moderator forwards it to the right body. Reports are never published.

If someone is in danger, call SAPS on 10111.

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What happened?

Choose the closest match. This is about what officials, politicians or public bodies did.

This service is about how public power is used. It is not for reporting anyone because of their nationality, ethnicity, religion or immigration status; reports of that kind are declined.

Who handles it

Choose what happened above to see the bodies best placed to act. Every official body on this page is listed below.

Contact details were checked on each body’s own website on 23 October 2026. Where a reporting line could not be confirmed there, only the official website is shown. Mandate SA is not connected to any of these bodies.

Send it to Mandate SA (optional)

We read every report and forward it, through the body's own official route, to the one best placed to act. We do not investigate, judge or publish reports.

What makes a useful report

  • What happened, in your own words, and how you know.
  • Who was involved: their role or office, and their name if you know it.
  • Where and when it happened, or whether it is still happening.
  • Any evidence: a receipt, letter, document, photo or screenshot.
  • Whether you have reported it elsewhere, and any case or reference number.

Your privacy

  • Anonymous by default: no account, name or phone number is asked for.
  • Your report is read only by Mandate SA moderators. It is never published, and nobody named in it is shown publicly.
  • Your internet address is not stored; a scrambled fingerprint of it is used only to limit repeated reports.
  • You get a reference to check the status: received, being reviewed, forwarded (and to whom) or not forwarded.

If you are an employee

The Protected Disclosures Act 26 of 2000 protects employees, in the public and private sectors, from being punished at work for disclosing wrongdoing through the routes the Act sets out, which include their employer, the Public Protector and the Auditor-General. If you are unsure whether your disclosure is protected, get legal advice before you make it.

Stay safe

Do not put yourself at risk to collect evidence, and do not confront the people involved. If someone is in danger, call SAPS on 10111.

Who did what, and how you know. Describe people by their role (for example “the clerk at counter 3”) and give a name if you know it. Leave out ID numbers, phone numbers and email addresses.
The office, municipality, department or town.
A date, a month, or “still happening”.
Up to 3 files: photos (JPEG, PNG or WebP) or PDF documents, 10 MB each, such as a receipt, a letter or a screenshot of a message. They are kept private; a moderator sees only a cleaned copy. Cover anything that identifies you.
Leave it empty to stay anonymous. If you give one, it is locked on our server with a key that only our Information Officer holds, offline. Moderators cannot see it, it is never passed to anyone else, and it is used only if we need to ask you about this report.

No account, name or phone number needed. Reports are never published. How reports are handled: privacy.