Tembisa Hospital bosses splurged R500 000 on a shipment of girls’ skinny jeans – purchased while South Africa was in the grip of the Covid-19 pandemic and just weeks before a third wave strained medical facilities to breaking point.
Babita Deokaran was a corruption whistleblower within the Gauteng Department of Health. She was assassinated in 2021.Tembisa Hospital bosses splurged R500 000 on a shipment of skinny jeans – purchased while South Africa was in the grip of the Covid-19 pandemic and just weeks before a third wave strained medical facilities to breaking point.
The payment for 200 pairs of denims - for girls aged between 6 and 7 – was flagged by Babita Deokaran alongside thousands of other transactions out of the East Rand hospital worth more than R850 million. She was assassinated three weeks later. Today marks the one year anniversary of her killing, and her family will lay a wreath outside her gate where she was shot. The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation will tonight host a memorial service at the Mondeor Baptist Church, south Johannesburg. Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.
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