For the past decade, ballooning medico-legal claims, now at close to R40-billion, have been a catastrophe for the Eastern Cape Health Department. Faced with a double-edged sword of having to pay a significant part of a diminishing budget in damages and the subsequent decimation of services beca.
Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane is off the hook for the public protector fraud allegations that government money went towards the renovation of his private house after the Bhisho High Court set aside a 2021 report on Tuesday.
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The Bhisho high court has reviewed, set aside and invalidated a public protector report that Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane and former public works MEC Babalo Madikizela “improperly” benefited from public funds earmarked for struggle stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s memorial in 2018. Suspended public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane found in 2021 that Mabuyane and Madikizela had “improperly” benefited from the funds amounting to more than R1m which were meant to ferry mourners to a memo.
Eastern Cape premier Lubabalo Oscar Mabuyane has welcomed a decision by the Bhisho high court to set aside the remedial action of the public protector.