Tembisa Hospital paid R9 600 for a household plastic bucket – one transaction in a wash of dirty payments worth nearly R55 million that were channelled to a network of companies run by one family.
Babita Deokaran was a corruption whistleblower within the Gauteng Department of Health. She was assassinated in 2021.Tembisa Hospital in Gauteng paid R9 600 for a plastic household bucket – just one transaction in a wash of dirty payments totalling nearly R55 million that were channelled to a network of companies run by one family.
Four members of the Mazibuko clan control 17 separate entities that were flagged by whistleblower Babita Deokaran – three weeks before her murder – in a report that raised alarm over R850 million in"possibly fraudulent" payments out of the hospital. A News24 investigation based on a trove of Gauteng health department e-mails can reveal that the family established a dynasty providing medical equipment and supplies to several health facilities in the province. But it was the Tembisa Hospital supply chain management office that delivered their heyday.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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