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The Hawks  has served warrants of arrests against director general at the department of health Sandile Buthelezi and two other senior officials,

Health director-general Sandile Buthelezi, two other officials arrested for fraud, theft

Buthelezi was previously implicated and later cleared in the Digital Vibes scandal

Popo Maja

Former health spokesperson Popo Maja in court over alleged Digital Vibes graft

Maja appeared in the specialised commercial crimes court on charges of corruption

Pragmatic: Former health minister Zweli Mkhize (L) with President Cyril Ramaphosa.

Mkhize throws the book at the Special Investigating Unit

It’s a long shot at political redemption for the former health minister and, more pressingly, a bid to avert criminal charges

Former health minister Zweli Mkhize. (Photo by Gallo Images/Sharon Seretlo)

Special Investigating Unit to oppose efforts to reject Mkhize report

Former health minister Zweli Mkhize seeks relief to declare the SIU’s conduct against him ‘unlawful and unconstitutional

Anban Pillay.

Health department suspends officials over Digital Vibes contract

Six of the nine implicated officials suspended for their part in the controversial Digital Vibes saga are from the health department

In sickness and in health: President Cyril Ramaphosa (L) with former health minister Zweli Mkhize in 2020.

Ramaphosa on Mkhize: ‘He has served South Africa well’

The president said the former health minister had steered the country around the HIV crisis and now the Covid-19 pandemic, and now a Special Investigating Unit report has…

Mkhize’s conduct was ‘at best improper, at worst unlawful’

The Special Investigating Unit says Mkhize’s denials that his family benefited were ‘untrue’

The Hawks  has served warrants of arrests against director general at the department of health Sandile Buthelezi and two other senior officials,

Health director general suspended for alleged involvement in Digital Vibes contract

After initially defending Sandile Buthelezi’s personal leave, the health department has announced that he has been placed on precautionary suspension

Special Investigating Unit records detail Zweli Mkhize’s role in Digital Vibes looting

In its court document, the SIU sets out its case against the alleged fraudulent and corrupt relationship between Digital Vibes, Mkhize and the health department — and asks for a…

DA calls for elections to be held in October, EFF wants them postponed to March 2022

The electoral commission heard that delaying local government elections will be an assault on democracy and that people’s lives should not be put at risk during the Covid crisis

A local analysis found early evidence of promising protective effects of the Pfizer vaccine in South Africa — even among those who had received only  one dose. (Photo by Dinendra Haria/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The EVDS will schedule your appointments six weeks apart. Here’s why

South Africa has doubled the interval for the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine. We take a look at what other countries have done and the evidence for the move

Answers are scant as Dr Zweli Mkhize remains on “special leave”. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Parliament’s health committee no closer to Digital Vibes contract answers, awaits SIU report

Thursday was the first time acting health minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane appeared before the committee, but she did not have many answers for MPs

Health Minister Zweli Mkhize. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Mkhize advised by lawyers to not meet parliament’s health committee

MPs from opposition parties agree that the sub judice reason for the health minister not appearing before the committee is not valid

Mkhize: ‘I didn’t benefit’ from R150m irregular health tender

The department of health will ask for the immediate recovery of all irregular payments made to Digital Vibes

(John McCann/M&G)

State of play after 400 days of South African lockdown

With about 1.5-million infections and 54 000 deaths, Covid-19 is still very much part of our lives as the state works to boost vaccinations

Mkhize: South Africa won’t end up in India-like Covid third wave crisis

The department of health briefed parliament on South Africa’s readiness for a possible third Covid-19 wave, as members’ expressed concerns in light of India’s surge in…

Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize. (Photo Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

How SA wants to sell the AstraZeneca vaccine for half the price and what the loss could be

Health Minister Zweli Mkhize says selling on the vaccines will stem wasteful expenditure, but people close to the discussions with AU say they will be sold on the cheap