Last year, the Mail & Guardian reported that the Gauteng health department and infrastructural development department invested in a dilapidated mine hospital in Carletonville. At the time, Covid-19 infection numbers were rising and people were dying and the department said the Anglogold Ashanti Hospital was necessary.
In January, the M&G reported that the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) was looking into the “waste” of R500-million that was meant to add 175 Covid-19 intensive care beds to Gauteng’s total bed count for the pandemic, because the province was battled with apparent shortages.
