No Fear: A Whistleblower's Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA by Marsha Coleman-Adebayo & Noam Chomsky

No Fear: A Whistleblower's Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA by Marsha Coleman-Adebayo & Noam Chomsky

Author:Marsha Coleman-Adebayo & Noam Chomsky [Coleman-Adebayo, Marsha]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2011-08-31T16:00:00+00:00


Deputy Minister Bantu Holomisa had been dismissed from his position only a few weeks after playing a vital role in championing the concerns of black South Africans during the transition process. Further, he had strongly opposed the USETI program. After Holomisa’s removal, the new deputy minister, Peter Mokaba, had been deliberately kept in the dark. This virtually guaranteed that the EPA could manipulate a course for South Africa that was aligned with US corporate interests, working with the same Afrikaner and other white operatives who had terrorized black South Africans during apartheid and who still oversaw vanadium mines.

Kasman testified that he was asked to replace me and become the point person for the BNC in late December 1996 by Alan Sielen, who was then the deputy assistant administrator. He testified that from 1997 to 1998 he had shared the South Africa responsibility with colleagues John Armstead and Francesca Di Cosmo, in EPA’s Philadelphia office. According to his testimony, Kasman was asked by Sielen to assume my position approximately two weeks before my dismissal. After my removal, the decision makers for American policy toward South Africa no longer had to contend with anyone questioning their environmental assumptions or their competency with respect to the country’s cultural and political nuances. Among the remaining staff responsible for implementing the BNC mandate, there were none with any general experience in dealing with South Africa or, as Franklin Moore pointed out, with an affinity toward indigenous South Africans. After our testimonies, I was heartened to see what I perceived as sympathy in the jurors’ faces. More important, I was encouraged that, despite David’s warning, the plight of vanadium workers and EPA’s decision not to conduct an independent investigation of the poisoning had become an issue of the trial.



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