After less than a year at the helm of the Gauteng Health Department, Dr Nomonde Nolutshungu has resigned and will leave at the end of this month.
The department has seen a succession of acting and permanent heads over the past few years, with Nolutshungu taking over after Professor Mkululi Lukhele resigned in October 2020 when he was implicated in the PPE scandal, while his predecessor, Dr Barney Selebano, left after the Life Esidimeni tragedy.
Nolutshungu is leaving for “health reasons”, writes DA shadow health MEC Jack Bloom in PoliticsWeb, “but I suspect she could not take the strain of running this corrupt and inefficient department. This included death threats in August last year after she acted against the Tembisa Hospital corruption uncovered by murdered whistle-blower Babita Deokaran.”
Bloom added that the department was lacking in stable senior leadership, with “far too many acting positions, including the CFO as the previous CFO was suspended for not acting on the Tembisa Hospital corruption”.
PoliticsWeb article – More instability as head of Gauteng Health quits – Jack Bloom (Open access)
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