Gauteng Health Department opens case of impersonation against bogus doctor ‘Matthew Zingelwa Lani’

Lerato Mbhiza

THE Gauteng Department of Health (GDH) opened a case of impersonating a medical doctor at the Brixton Police station on Monday, following reports of a so-called ‘Dr Matthew Lani’ who has assumed various pseudo medical roles, as well as falsely presenting himself as an employee of the department.

On Monday the GDH together with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) as well as the University of Witwatersrand (Wits) distanced themselves in a statement from the bogus Doctor also known as Dr Zingelwa Lani.

The self-proclaimed Tik Tok doctor who claimed to have studied medicine at Wits Medical School, has been dispensing medical advice and assumed the role of an HIV actiist online has been misrepresenting himself, according to the HPCSA and Wits.

In his Tik Tok video post, the ‘conman’ said he was enrolld at Wits from 2014 to 2021 and graduated from Wits Medical School at