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MK Party demands Motsoaledi’s head over health adspend
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi must resign and a nationwide parliamentary inquiry into health procurement should be launched, according to the MK Party after the latest governmental...
More than R700m, and six years later, ‘state-of-the-art’ path lab still not ready
There is still no completion date for Johannesburg’s new forensic pathology lab, which remains an empty shell while the current facility – the condemned...
SIU seizes R42m assets linked to Tembisa bribes
Cash, properties, pensions and investments worth about R42.2m have been secured by the Special Investigating Unit after being linked to bribes allegedly paid by...
Gauteng EMS staff in overtime dispute
Claims that Gauteng EMS staff were suspended for refusing to work overtime with extra pay have been denied by the Department of Health, reports...
Private health sector still losing billions to fraud and waste
South Africa’s private health sector is continuing to be bled dry by thieves and cheats, with an eye-watering R30bn lost to fraud, waste and...
Questions over NHI advertising contracts spark investigations
The South African Medical Association (SAMA) has written to President Cyril Ramaphosa calling for an urgent, independent investigation into the reported expenditure of almost...
How Tembisa ‘looter’ bribed officials
Gauteng Health officials and their girlfriends raked in luxury cars and cash as payoffs from alleged kingpin Stefan Govindraju during the Tembisa Hospital grand...
Taxman seeks R2bn from alleged Tembisa Hospital tender kingpin
The SA Revenue Services wants R1.9bn from alleged Tembisa Hospital kingpin Hangwani Morgan Maumela, who has still not been formally charged in the looting...
Ten-year delay in R2.8bn hospital build drags on with more hiccups
Community unrest and the liquidation of a contractor have been blamed for further delays to the decade-long construction of the (new) Mapulaneng Regional Hospital...
Can new Health DG transform a flailing department?
Dr Thembisile Xulu is South Africa’s sixth permanent Director-General of health since the dawn of democracy. Marcus Low, Spotlight editor, wonders how she will...
New HoD job for official linked to Tembisa corruption
A provincial government official linked to the massive fraud scandal at Tembisa Hospital has been appointed head of department for Johannesburg’s Public Safety portfolio,...
Probe into Germiston ‘money-for-post-mortem’ claims
The Gauteng Health Department is investigating claims of extortion and corruption at the Germiston Forensic Pathology Service facility, where officials have been accused of...
Patient’s death at psychiatric facility referred to NPA
An investigation into the June 2025 death of a long-term patient at Witrand Psychiatric Hospital in North West has been escalated to the NPA...
State doctors and nurses rise up against crumbling institutions
Doctors and nurses are standing up against the continuing deterioration of South Africa’s public healthcare system, warning that crumbling infrastructure, critical staff shortages and...
New Johannesburg ambulances unused, parked for six years
Despite the chronic shortage of emergency services vehicles countrywide, 41 ambulances bought by the City of Johannesburg – for a total of R16m –...
Parliament to probe GEMS boss suspension
A multi-departmental parliamentary meeting is expected to be held over the precautionary suspension last week of Dr Stan Moloabi, principal officer of the Government...
Net closes in as Tembisa syndicate kingpin arrested
The arrest of a key player in the Tembisa Hospital procurement fraud scandal, six years after whistle-blower Babita Deokaran was assassinated for flagging irregular...
Five years after Deokaran’s death, killers’ boss still unknown and free
This past Sunday marked five years since the assassination of Gauteng Health whistle-blower Babita Deokaran, who had first exposed the trail of suspicious payments...
Probe after Helen Joseph patient complaint
Johannesburg’s Helen Joseph Hospital has initiated an investigation after a video posted on social media by a patient claimed the hospital is chaotic and...
Eastern Cape Health ignores thousands of supplier invoices
The Health Department in the Eastern Cape failed to pay 2 340 invoices within 30 days – worth a staggering R161.9m – with 48%...
SIU to probe Gauteng Health circumcision tender
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has been authorised by President Cyril Ramaphosa to dig into a Gauteng Department of Health tender linked to the...
Charlotte Maxeke shortages put patients at risk, says insider
Patient care has been compromised recently at Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital, despite the reassurances and denials from Gauteng Health, according to an insider, who...
Millions in assets to be seized from alleged Tembisa-linked looter
Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has welcomed the final court order for the National Prosecuting Authority to permanently seize assets worth R325m linked to...
Massive security upgrades after 100 break-ins at Gqeberha hospital complex
Despite the staggering statistics of more than 100 break-ins, burglaries and robberies at Eastern Cape health facilities last year – resulting in damages of...
Hawks accused of delays in bogus KZN doctor probe
The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (the Hawks) in KwaZulu-Natal is under fire after being accused of deliberately dragging its heels in a criminal...
Rob Ferreira Hospital ‘has no hot water, no linen’, oversight visit finds
Nursing staff at Rob Ferreira Hospital in Mbombela have to take kettles to work to ensure their patients have hot water for bathing, because...
The best – and worst – districts in SA in which to give birth
A total of 29 babies died every single day in South African public hospitals in 2024 before they were one-month-old, according to figures from...
New Gauteng system tackles waiting lists, surgical access
For decades, surgical waiting lists in South Africa have largely been invisible outside individual hospitals. Patients waited, clinicians improvised and health system leaders often...
South African healthcare sector being bled dry by thieves and cheats
Crooked doctors, exorbitant overcharging, and procurement irregularities are pushing health costs sky-high, reports TimesLIVE, with as much as 15% of all healthcare claims being...
Children wait nearly three years for surgery at Charlotte Maxeke
Gauteng Health MEC Faith Mazibuko has called for a dedicated emergency paediatric theatre with dedicated anaesthetic and nursing support at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital. This...
More arrests likely in Medicare24 tender corruption case
None of the people already linked to the R288m SAPS Medicare24 tender corruption case has approached the state to negotiate a plea deal yet,...
More than 50 hospitals still headed by acting CEOs
The absence of permanent CEOs at state hospitals across South Africa is alarming, with Gauteng alone having 13 out of 37 facilities headed by...
NHS maternity care failures led to deaths, harm to hundreds of mothers and babies
An inquiry into NHS England’s biggest ever maternity scandal has revealed that more than 500 mothers and babies came to harm or died because...
Madlanga Inquiry evidence implicates Medicare24 boss in drug deals
WhatsApp chats, voice notes and video clips presented before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry on Monday revealed what appeared to be drug dealing between...
Tembisa officials helped kingpin score R25m in two hours
Alleged Tembisa Hospital corruption kingpin Stefan Govindraju scooped a R25m payday in two and a half hours using a bunch of shell companies –...
Cyber hackers target South Africa’s healthcare system
Experts have called for stronger cyber-security measures to be implemented countrywide, warning that South Africa is the most targeted country in Africa by these...
Health Department staff probed over R800m oxygen tender
Three Health Department officials are being investigated in connection with the awarding of the R800m Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) Oxygen Plant tender from the...
Tougher action needed for NHSL debt
The astronomical debts owed by provinces to the National Health Service Laboratory Service are endangering patients and threatening the very existence of the NHSL,...
More Tembisa fraud revelations likely after audit records enforcement
In a move that has put the Department of Health in a corner, and which could potentially lead to more damning revelations relating to...
High risk baby’s access to clinic allegedly blocked by vigilantes
The March and March vigilante group has denied any knowledge of a mother and her critically ill four-month-old baby being barred by its members...