The SIU said on Wednesday that it would oppose former health minister Zweli Mkhize’s high court application to review and set aside a report that found him “at worst unlawful” in his conduct regarding the R150-million Digital Vibes tender scandal.
dismissed reports that the unit was at court on Tuesday evening following Mkhize’s high court application. But he confirmed that the SIU would oppose the application “within the timeframe of the court”.
The former minister says the investigative body also failed to disclose allegations made against him by the former director general of health, arguing that the allegations were false. “The SIU gave me no opportunity to respond to those allegations which form the main plank of its findings against me. The allegations are indeed demonstrably false, as other evidence corroborates, and appear to have been driven by the previous difficult relationship between myself and the former DG.”
The investigative body’s report found that Mkhize’s denials that he or his family had benefited from the tender were “untrue”. According to the report, Mkhize’s conduct in approaching the then-director general of the department to appoint Digital Vibes was “at best improper … and at worst … unlawful” because it constituted interference in the affairs of the department’s administrative authority.
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