Canary

When is enough enough? What is the point at which you have to act against rampant corruption, regardless of personal cost? Maks Ntaka, passed over for promotion and frozen out by a corrupt cabal, might just have reached that point. But Maks has secrets of his own, smallanyana skeletons that will almost certainly be revealed by his enemies as they try to use his secrets to destroy him. Drawing on his own experience in state-owned entities and as a psychologist (Maks’s therapist, Dr. Ndlovu, is an unmissable support character) as well as deep research into whistle-blowing, Onke Mazibuko explores the moral complexity of standing up against systemic abuse and injustice from a compromised position. Canary raises timely and probing questions: How far can we go in defending integrity when our own is in question? How far should we go?