Department of Health response to News24 on the allegations of corruption in the NW Health Department
12 September 2023
The Minister of Health, Dr Joe Phaahla strongly rejects the allegations made in the News24 online publication in regard to him covering up alleged corruption in the North-West Provincial Department of Health.
He considers the allegations scurrilous, defamatory and devoid of any truth, as the purported investigation was compiled way before he could be appointed Minister of Health on 05 August 2021. As such Minister has no knowledge of such a report and the happenings with regard to how the referred security tender was processed towards the appointment of the preferred bidder.
It is wholly disingenuous for any person, including the said official to attempt to link Minister to these allegations as they have no basis whatsoever.
The referred investigation report was never presented to the Minister when he took over the leadership of the Department, and still he could not have acted over something that he was not made aware of.