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Murder of whistleblower Babita Deokaran

Babita Deokaran, who was investigating the Tembisa Hospital procurement fraud, was murdered on 17 August 2021. Her death is directly tied to the corruption scheme she was exposing.

17 claims from testimony
"the murder of Babita Deokaran"
mentioned inLieutenant General MasemolaCL0004594
"it was the award of that contract that Babita Deokaran was investigating when she was murdered?"
investigation subject at time of murderBabita DeokaranAdv Chaskalson SCCL0031290
"the murder of Ms Babita Deokaran was investigated by Johannesburg Serious Organized Crime"
knowledge ofMaj-Gen SenonaMajor General SenonaCL0046603
"a whistleblower has been murdered for exposing corruption in Tembisa Hospital"
knowledge ofMaj-Gen SenonaMajor General SenonaCL0046629
"what was said on the radio is, if I remember very well, travelling to work, was a whistleblower who was murdered for exposing corruption at Tembisa Hospital"
awareness ofMaj-Gen SenonaMajor General SenonaCL0046637
"you heard on radio that Ms Deokaran, a whistleblower, has been killed"
stated summaryAdvocate Sesi Baloyi, SCAdv Baloyi SCCL0046645
"she was killed for blowing the whistle on corruption at Tembisa Hospital"
stated summaryAdvocate Sesi Baloyi, SCAdv Baloyi SCCL0046646
"you heard Ms Deokaran has been killed"
awareness ofMaj-Gen SenonaAdv Baloyi SCCL0046652
"She was a whistleblower on corruption at Tembisa Hospital"
awareness ofMaj-Gen SenonaAdv Baloyi SCCL0046653
"No, this one of the Babita Deokaran, I did not ask him"
discussion subject withMaj-Gen SenonaMajor General SenonaCL0047063
"The Babita Deokaran matter, the fraud on the tender."
identification ofAdvocate Sesi Baloyi, SCAdv Baloyi SCCL0047073
"Of Ms Deokaran."
identityLieutenant General ShibiriCL0076583
"you have already said that you became aware of the allegedly fraudulently awarded contract, the murder of Ms Babita Deokaran, the alleged involvement of Mr Matlala. You said you became aware of all these when the news first broke."
statedChairpersonCL0076598
"I already commented that when the news of the murder of Ms Deokaran happened, I was in Gauteng, I had a full report."
statedLieutenant General ShibiriCL0076613
"it was indicated that the murder is about 200 million Tembisa tender"
reasonLieutenant General ShibiriCL0076615
"you still got to know about the award of the, rather the news about the fraud around the contract."
knowledge ofChairpersonCL0076630
"You still got to know about the death of Ms Babita Deokaran."
knowledge ofChairpersonCL0076631