/ 3 October 2025

‘Tembisa Hospital killed my son’

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Fraud, corruption and racketeering: Syndicates siphoned more than R2 billion from Tembisa Hospital where Shonisani Lethole died in 2020 after receiving “substandard and negligent” care. Photo: File

The SIU’s revelations this week of sprawling corruption at the hospital bring cold comfort to one grieving mother

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