Des Erasmus
Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi on Wednesday night denied any role in a financial settlement reached with controversial former provincial health CFO Lerato Madyo.
“Premier Lesufi dismisses any insinuation that he was part of the arrangements to release the pension payout of the department’s former CFO and would like to point out that Ms Madyo’s disciplinary hearing commenced prior to his tenure,” a statement from Lesufi’s office said.
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Madyo has been linked via investigative reporting and by opposition political parties to the Tembisa Hospital procurement scandal uncovered by slain whistleblower Babita Deokaran.
News24 has reported that Deokaran flagged nearly R850 million in suspicious transactions at the hospital and tried to stop more than R100 million in payments. She sent her concerns to Madyo, who was her superior at the time, shortly before being assassinated
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