The Treatment Action Campaign urged him, among others, to set up an internal anti-corruption unit that works together with law enforcement agencies and address the dire human resources for health.
Pretoria – Activist organisation the Treatment Action Campaign has welcomed the replacement of former health minister Zweli Mkhize with Joe Phaahla.
’’We call on him to bring stability to the department through radically improving the immunisation programme; setting up an internal anti-corruption unit that works together with law enforcement agencies; and addressing the dire human resources for health,” said Anele Yawa, the TAC general secretary.
“We express our disappointment, having been quietly optimistic when he took over in 2019. We lament that it took as long as it did to effect this change, given the mountain of evidence and allegations against him and others implicated in the Digital Vibes saga,” said Yawa. Sibongile Tshabalala, national chairperson of the TAC, said it was “unforgivable that a minister of Health could allegedly take R1 million meant for saving people’s lives and use it for the establishment of an upmarket salon, particularly during an unprecedented pandemic”.
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