The charges relate to alleged R2-billion tender fraud that has crippled the Matjhabeng Local Municipality
Benny Malakoane ‘did an excellent job’ despite tales of fraud, dismissals and hospitals in crisis.
As Benny Malakoane showed off progress in Free State, 317 patients were left in the dark over their cancer status.
The Mma Mokoenas of community health still dispense help despite having been dismissed.
Free State Health MEC Benny Malakoane has accused the M&G of sensationalist reporting, but warned that his department will run out of money this year.
Free State healthcare workers say they are being punished for having dared to defy health MEC Benny Malakoane publicly.
Health activist group TAC takes Benny Malakoane and others to court for allegedly giving a dying woman’s hospital bed to an ANC official.
Activists have expressed frustration at the corruption trial of Free State MEC Benny Malakoane being postponed for the fifth time.
In this 2014 interview, former Free State health MEC Benny Malakoane says that detractors are still alive is proof of the good work under his watch.
The pressure group has accused the Free State’s health MEC of being behind the intimidation.
Ill residents may suffer most after the axing of Free State community health workers.
The province’s health MEC has condemned the slogans marchers on the department have been chanting, calling them insulting and inappropriate.
In a TAC march, workers in the province’s crisis-hit health sector say they will hold a night vigil every Wednesday until demands are met.
A budget spending monitoring forum says the department is on the verge of collapse and is R700-million in debt.
Acts such as Malakoane’s go beyond nepotism. They are simply the crudest and cruellest form of political arrogance and corruption.
In the Free State, access to health services can depend on who you know, as the tragic case of one woman illustrates.
Appalling conditions in Free State hospitals reveal a health care system that seems to be corrupt from top to bottom.
The TAC says it fears the arrest of over 50 community healthcare workers after they began a sit-in at the province’s health department headquarters.
