No image available
/ 20 September 2004

Cofimvaba hospital in crisis

Cofimvaba hospital near Umtata is in financial crisis, with patients being fed mostly on dry rice and eggs and staff often arriving at work drunk, an investigation by the provincial health portfolio committee has found. Committee chairperson Mzukisi Mpahlwa said the hospital would run out of money within a month.

No image available
/ 6 September 2004

Eastern Cape finance minister fired

Eastern Cape finance minister Enoch Godongwana was fired on Monday, Premier Nosimo Balindlela’s office said. ”Both the suspension of the finance superintendent general, Monde Tom, and Godongwana’s dismissal come after a probe into financial irregularities in that department,” a spokesperson said.