A former state attorney official together with a family member and an associate are in hot water after the Special Tribunal ordered they must pay back R4.5m they allegedly defrauded from the Gauteng department of health.
The implicated official is Nosipho Zibani, with her sister Phindile Zibani and their associate Yolanda Tebogo Hlatshwayo.
They face a criminal investigation after judge Lebogang Modiba ordered law enforcement should investigate them for the case. created “fictitious and bogus” medico-legal claims to defraud the Gauteng health department. Modiba handed down the judgment as a default judgment after the defendants either failed to file an answering affidavit or fully comply with the court.
“Hlatshwayo did not file a notice of intention to defend. For this reason, she was effectively barred from defending these proceedings in terms of rule 13. The Zibani defendants filed their notice of intention to defend but failed to file their plea. They, too, became effectively barred from defending these proceedings in terms of the same rule,” Modiba said in her judgment.
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