🚨 Former Gauteng Health MEC QedaniMahlangu denies full responsibility for the LifeEsidimeniTragedy, which claimed the lives of 144 people 💔 Read more on TheCitizenNews ⬇️
Former Gauteng Health MEC Qedani Mahlangu testifies during the Life Esidimeni arbitration on 24 January 2018 in Johannesburg. Picture: Gallo Images / Sowetan / Alon Skuy
Had no knowledge that the bogus non-governmental organisations where the mentally impaired were transferred to from Life Esidimeni had fake operating licences; and Evidence leader advocate WF Pienaar said: “When the project committee of the department of health requested an extension – minimum of six months or a maximum of a year – you were not inclined to grant that. Is that correct?”Mahlangu: “We – myself and other heads of department – granted a further three-month extension, making it nine months in total, after deliberations.”
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