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TEMBISA HOSPITAL

Cat Matlala admits connection to Hangwani Maumela

Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala has admitted to the Madlanga Commission that he partnered with Hangwani Morgan Maumela, a key figure in the R820m Tembisa Hospital procurement scandal, to…

  • Nkateko Joseph Mabasa
4 min read
New national director of public prosecutions Andy Mothibi. (Paul Botes)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Opposition questions Mothibi appointment as NPA head, expressing concerns over process and independence

The uMkhonto weSizwe party called on the incoming national director of public prosecutions to immediately act against Hangwani Maumela when he steps into office

  • Mandisa Makgakga
5 min read
ANC treasurer general Gwen Ramokgopa. (@DrGwenR/X)
ANC

Gwen Ramokgopa: “I was hurt” by being associated with Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala

The ANC treasurer general denied knowing the alleged underworld figure, as well as equally controversial North West businessman Brown Mogotsi

  • Lunga Mzangwe
5 min read
The DA argued that the BEE policy had been created by white-owned big businesses to give shares to politically connected people in order to keep the status quo and benefit a few people.
ANC

DA urges ANC and the rest of the GNU to support its bill aimed at scrapping BEE

The Democratic Alliance is arguing that it’s in the ANC’s electoral interests to back the proposal

  • Lunga Mzangwe
5 min read
The head of Gauteng’s department of health and wellness, Lesiba Arnold Malotana. (Gauteng Department of Health)
CORRUPTION

Gauteng head of health and wellness suspended

This comes amid the Special Investigating Unit’s crackdown on people linked to corruption at Tembisa Hospital

  • Aarti Bhana
2 min read
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has raided the Sandton, Johannesburg, home of businessman Hangwani Maumela, seizing high-end vehicles and artworks as part of an R820 million asset recovery operation linked to wholesale looting at Tembisa Hospital, in Ekurhuleni. Photo: File
AARON MOTSOALEDI

Massive raid part of asset recovery in Tembisa Hospital tender fraud

The Special Investigating Unit has seized luxury vehicles and artworks worth millions from businessman Hangwani Maumela’s Joburg mansion as part of an R820 million asset recovery

  • Nkateko Joseph Mabasa
2 min read
Good examples: In Midvaal, the library was teeming with locals who had access to free wifi and computers provided by the municipality. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy
ANC

In Midvaal, the evidence suggests the DA does govern better

Even the informal settlements have running water, uninterrupted electricity and their own toilets

  • Lunga Mzangwe
8 min read
Candlelight Vigil For Corruption Fighter Babita Deokaran at the office of the Premier on August 26, 2021 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Babita Deokaran, who was the chief director of financial accounting in the Gauteng Department of Health, was shot and killed in what investigators believed was a targeted hit. Deokoran was a whistleblower and key witness in the Special Investigating Unit’s key witness against PPE corruption in the Gauteng Department of Health. (Photo by Gallo Images/Fani Mahuntsi)
BABITA DEOKARAN

Babita Deokaran’s killers plead guilty, sentenced to six to 22 years

All six men, who appeared in the Johannesburg high court on Tuesday, agreed to a plea deal

  • Mandisa Ndlovu
1 min read
In the spotlight: Xolani Jwaga’s firm XPJ Events was paid more than R1 million for work done at Pholosong Hospital.
ASHLEY MTHUNZI

Gospel star Xolani Jwaga ‘scored from hospital graft’

Xolani Jwaga, who owns an events company, helped build shoddy sports facilities at a provincial facility

  • Khaya Koko
6 min read
Pholosong Hospital was billed R484 346 for a bird repellent device. (Gallo Images)
ASHLEY MTHUNZI

Gauteng health loses R48 million through collusive corruption

Ashley Mthunzi and his ‘corruption mafia’ are being investigated by the Hawks

  • Khaya Koko
7 min read
‘Absurd’: Former Gauteng premier David Makhura denies the provincial government was involved in a cover-up. Photo: Papi Morake/Gallo Images
ASHLEY MTHUNZI

David Makhura ‘protected’ hospital boss

R48 million was looted from Gauteng’s health system following the alleged shielding of Tembisa Hospital’s chief executive

  • Khaya Koko
6 min read
Too little protection: Slain corruption fighter Babita Deokaran was not safe after making disclosures relating to personal protective equipment fraud at the Gauteng health department. (Fani Mahuntsi/Gallo Images)
ASHLEY MTHUNZI

Outa demands accountability for Deokaran assassination

Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse members protested at the Gauteng health department over corruption exposed by the whistleblower

  • Bongeka Gumede
4 min read
Nurses treat patients infected with Covid-19 at ward number 20 of the Tembisa Hospital in Tembisa, on March 2, 2021. (Photo by Guillem Sartorio / AFP) (Photo by GUILLEM SARTORIO/AFP via Getty Images)
ANGELIQUE COETZEE

Covid-19 hospital admissions on the rise in Gauteng as fourth wave looms

Most of the admissions are of unvaccinated and younger people, but there are fears of a spread to older people

  • Marcia Zali
5 min read
Yay for SA’s child health policies
ACUTE PROFOUND HYPOXIC EVENT

Constitutional Court to rule on leave to appeal in Tembisa Hospital cerebral palsy case

Lawyers representing Tembisa Hospital say there is nothing staff could have done to avoid newborn’s brain damage.

  • Chris Gilili
3 min read
Former Eskom chairperson Malegapuru Makgoba on Wednesday said it was Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan’s idea that the state-owned entity should conduct intelligence gathering to combat corruption.
COVID 19

Shonisani Lethole died due to negligence, ombud finds

Staff at Tembisa Hospital did not do their job in caring for the businessman, the health ombudsman finds, and orders an investigation

  • Tshegofatso Mathe
4 min read