SCORPIO: Digital Vibes scandal: Meet ‘Dr’ Pelo, the National Health Insurance’s literal R1.1-million cash cow

One of South Africa’s first significant National Health Insurance contracts became an alleged looting frenzy, with close associates of Zweli Mkhize, the health minister currently on special leave, adding massive mark-ups on invoices for questionable communications services rendered to the Department of Health .

Pelo was due to be rolled out as a mascot for the NHI, sources familiar with the matter have told Scorpio. The invoice includes a R1.2-million charge for an “NHI creative proposal” and another R1.2-million bill for NHI “branding and brand book”. “The NHI Creative proposal explained what we wanted to accomplish to achieve our goal. The client needed to see and understand the objective and outcome of the project. In this case, a template was created to guide us. This became the reference point for the NHI project,” reads the firm’s justification for the R1.2-million charge.

Later invoices would still include minor NHI billings, but after March 2020, the bulk of Digital Vibes’ charges emanated from Covid-19 work.

PLMyburgh And this is why so much pressure on launching a programme that failed so dismally in its pilot. One can only hope that this is enough of a red flag for the President to re-examine the roll out - in which case we will have got off lightly with only these millions being looted

PLMyburgh We are so royally screwed.

PLMyburgh Hawu mara Zweli 🙆‍♀️

PLMyburgh Absolutely beggars belief how brazen these criminals are... its like stealing candy from a baby!

PLMyburgh its getting deeper

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