Court judgment confirms Masuku’s political negligence
13 April 2021
The North High Court’s dismissal of former Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku‘s application to set aside the SIU report into PPE procurement irregularities in the Gauteng Health Department confirms his political negligence in this matter.
Masuku is correct that no crime was directly linked to him in the SIU report, but absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, and further investigations may reveal a different story.
At this stage we know that Masuku failed to stop the PPE scandal, which is confirmed by Judge Roland Sutherland’s scathing remarks in his judgment.
According to Sutherland, Masuku was “deaf and blind” to the risks of alleged irregularities in his department, and his failure to read his emails was prima facie “a confession of