DA welcomes proclamation for SIU to investigate Tembisa Hospital corruption

15 August 2023

The Democratic Alliance welcomes the news that President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the proclamation to extend the SIU probe into more than R1 billion Tembisa Hospital corruption.

When it is gazetted this week, the SIU will have powers to subpoena implicated people, including Humphrey Morgan Maumela who got R336 million from 12 companies that did business with the hospital over a two-year period. Maumela is Ramaphosa’s nephew from a previous marriage.

Another politically connected person is Sello Sekhokho, who scored R14.5 million in contracts for grossly over-priced goods from Tembisa Hospital, and also got R85 million worth of contracts from other Gauteng hospitals. He is the ANC’s Ekurhuleni Region Treasurer General.

I hope the SIU investigation extends to other hospitals, as the fishy companies that got contracts from Tembisa Hospital got contracts at other hospitals as well.

The SIU needs to investigate the corruption networks without fear or favour. I suspect that rotten officials in the Gauteng Health Department receive high-level political protection which needs to be exposed and ended.

The delay in signing the proclamation is unfortunate. We need to see speedy justice for the murder of whistleblower Babita Deokaran who tried to stop the suspicious payments at Tembisa Hospital.

Issued by Jack Bloom, DA Gauteng Shadow MEC for Health, 15 August 2023