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Fiery nurse activist Fikile Dikolomela-Lengene says “the rot” of corruption in Gauteng’s health sector runs deep

was assassinated shortly after flagging up to R850 million in suspicious payments authorised at Tembisa Hospital in Johannesburg., one of the people accused of capturing the YNITU – Lerato Mthunzi – is the wife of embattled Tembisa Hospital chief executive officer Ashley Mthunzi, who was suspended on August 26 over allegations of widespread corruption – including R498 000 of the hospital budget spent on 200 pairs of skinny jeans.

“You have to ask yourself, how many processes are there before payment is actually made? So all those processes were flawed, or were people in those processes flawed themselves? And then, you have condoms not being on a tender. You start asking yourself [how are] people able to get money for jeans, but there’s no money for a tender for condoms?”“We’re not going anywhere unless they actually bring a lot of people to account,” she says. “R850 million, imagine! I’m looking at my clinic.

“It’s what we call a historically black college, one of the colleges that Barack Obama went to. So I think that was an honour on its own,” she says. The National Strategic Direction for Nursing Education and Practice: A Road Map for Strengthening Nursing and Midwifery in South AfricaShe is highly critical of this new strategy, calling it a “big mistake”, and effectively a “downgrade” in"I've got a four-year diploma. I've got a one-year post-graduate, [and] I've got a three-year degree. I'm not even going to talk about the side courses I've done. There are over 10.

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