Three weeks before she was murdered, Gauteng health department whistleblower Babita Deokaran raised the alarm over payments from Tembisa Hospital to ANC Ekurhuleni leader Sello Sekhokho.
Babita Deokaran was a corruption whistleblower within the Gauteng Department of Health. She was assassinated in 2021.Three little-known companies headed by Gauteng ANC heavyweight Sello Sekhokho scored contracts providing medical supplies and equipment to Tembisa Hospital worth R2.3 million - his windfall flagged as"potentially fraudulent" by Department of Health chief accountant Babita Deokaran just three weeks before she was murdered.
One firm - Kaizen Projects - is among a network of 217 entities Deokaran identified as part of a flood of transactions out of Tembisa Hospital, her suspicion piqued by a buying spree which shot expenditure in July of 2021 sharply up. In a single month, goods and services for the tertiary hospital accounted for R239 million, 25% more than Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital, which is four times its size.
The whistleblower reported the splurge to department CFO Lerato Madyo and called for an immediate investigation and a stop on payments worth R104 million. Ten months after she was gunned down in a hit-style killing outside her south Johannesburg home, the payments out of the hospital have yet to be probed in their entirety. Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month.
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