Suspensions without pay, final written warnings and salary level demotions were the sanctions imposed on two senior health officials who were involved in awarding the controversial Digital Vibes communication contract.
In its main application, the SIU seeks to hold Digital Vibes, Tahera Mather, Naadira Mitha, the former health minister Zweli Mkhize and Welcome Mthethwa jointly and severally liable for the repayment of about R150m derived from unlawfully concluded transactions between the National Department o.
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Three years of testimony on a decade of political and corporate crime are to be followed by a wave of prosecutions, Few countries have had more thoroughgoing probes of their business and political classes but a bigger test is coming next. Can the governing African National Congress shut out the business cronies and win back the people s confidence?
26 May 2021
Eventually, after four years of unchecked recklessness which not even popular US president Dwight Esienhower could interdict, US senator Joseph McCarthy was undone by one killer question.
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