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The Special Tribunal also gave the controversial businessman a suspended R500,000 fine for the contempt ordered that was issued in June 2022.
The Presidency is monitoring the outcomes of 297 recommendations for disciplinary actions related to the PPE procurement while 190 of the cases were finalised with 98 guilty findings and 18 officials dismissed.
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The businessman was ordered to pay the fine in monthly instalments.
The report revealed misconduct in the supply and delivery of municipal Personal Protective Equipment tender.
The matter involved the supply of PPE to the department at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic that gripped the country during 2020.
The operation by the Asset Forfeiture Unit, SIU, and the Hawks included serving orders at 34 locations and capturing inventories of 29 properties, 31 vehicles, and a boat trailer.
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The Tribunal ordered that LNG be divested of all profits enjoyed under the invalid contract.
They were initially suspended, following recommendations made by a forensic investigation related to the procurement of PPE, including blankets.
According to the World Health Organization, data from various sources indicate increasing transmission during December, fuelled by gatherings over the holiday period, and by the JN. 1 variant, which is now the most commonly reported variant globally.
Transnet’s top executives Lerato Makenete and Landela Madubane were found guilty of allegedly colluding with suppliers during the Covid-19 pandemic to defraud Transnet by Inflating the price of the straws from R0. 29 per straw to R29. 99 per straw, resulting in a total payment of R33. 834, 698. 40.
The High Court order dated September 1, 2023, comes after the SIU and the National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS) accepted an offer of R7. 1 million for the Bryanston home as part of the implementation of investigation outcomes and consequence management to recover losses suffered by the State and NHLS.
Dikgetsi claims that Saul failed to act against the HOD of Health Dion Theys and CFO Mosimanegape Gaborone.
Dr Dion Theys, Northern Cape Health CFO Mosimanegape Gaborone and seven other accused were charged in the Kimberley Magistrate’s Court on several counts of fraud and corruption.
The convicted HOD, Dr Dion Theys, is now facing new criminal charges of fraud and corruption in the Kimberley Magistrate’s Court.
The head of the Department of Health in the Northern Cape, Dr Dion Theys, charged in connection with fraud over a R16 million PPE contract, released on R5,000 bail.
The State opposed the bail of Dr Dion Theys, 56, the head of department of the Northern Cape Department of Health. A decision will be made on Monday.
While it is important to know updates on the court case, she was still a human being, someone’s mother, daughter, and friend, so the question is: who was Babita Deokaran?
Six men convicted and sentenced for the murder of Gauteng health department financial accountant, Babita Deokaran, have given investigators the names of three other people linked to her murder.
Babita Deokaran was the Chief Director of Financial Accounting in the Gauteng Department of Health, and she was killed in August 2021. That was after she blew the whistle on corruption related to the procurement of medical supplies for Tembisa Hospital.
The six men charged with the murder of Department of Health whistle-blower Babita Deokaran have been sentenced in court on Tuesday.
The Mbombela Special Commercial Crimes Court has sentenced Mpendulo Sipho Mapalala to four years’ imprisonment for attempting to bribe a SIU investigator.
The Competition Tribunal also imposed an administrative penalty of R3 550 000, jointly and severally, on Gauteng-based BlueCollar and KwaZulu-Natal-based Ateltico for overcharging the SAPS to the amount of R9. 8 million for the bulk supply of 10 000 25 litre containers of hand sanitisers in 2020.
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