GAUTENG Premier David Makhura has welcomed the Special Tribunal’s correction to the judgment it made in December last year that implicated him in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) corruption scandal.
In an affidavit to the Special Investigating Unit, the former Chief Financial Officer of the Department of Health, Kabelo Lehloenya, had alleged that Makhura had given names of the companies that had to be appointed to supply and deliver PPEs in the province.
The DA has called on Makhura to be axed and the African National Congress Youth League wants him to appear before the party’s provincial integrity commission.
But the Premier’s Spokesperson, Vuyo Mhaga, said the Special Tribunal has corrected the error.
“On 27 January 2021, Premier David Makhura made an application to the Special Tribunal in terms of Rule 42, to seek correction on paragraphs 14 and 24 of the Tribunal judgment to include the words ‘Office of’ before
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