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title: "Anonymous Report"
space: "Industrial Relations Documentation"
url: "http://www.buff0k.co.za/ir-docs/anonymous-report"
updated: "2026-08-17"
---

# Anonymous Report

Anyone - inside or outside the organisation - can submit a whistleblowing or protected-disclosure report through a **public, no-login web form** at `/whistleblower`.

![The public whistleblower intake form: legal notice covering anonymity, the Protected Disclosures Act and POPIA, then the report fields](/files/ir-whistleblower-formff134f.png)

## What the form covers

Before any fields, the page states the legal basis plainly - anonymity and confidentiality (with honest caveats about when it can't be guaranteed), the Protected Disclosures Act 26 of 2000 and POPIA, protection against retaliation, and how the information will be used. The form itself asks for the nature and detail of the report, optional evidence attachments, and *optional* contact details - a reporter can stay fully anonymous.

## Who gets notified - and why it's different

Anonymous Report doesn't use Designation Limits or Branch Limits at all. Instead, notifications go only to users holding the **Anonymous Report Investigator** role - a separate, role-gated access model, since the doctype carries no accused-employee designation or branch field to restrict against the normal way (see **IR Role Restrictions - Designation Limits & Branch Limits**). It's a genuinely different shape of record: an allegation to investigate, not a case already attached to a known employee.

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