other17 August 2021E000022
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 claimsTembisa Hospital extraction scheme
17 claims from testimony
"the murder of Babita Deokaran"
"it was the award of that contract that Babita Deokaran was investigating when she was murdered?"
"the murder of Ms Babita Deokaran was investigated by Johannesburg Serious Organized Crime"
"a whistleblower has been murdered for exposing corruption in Tembisa Hospital"
"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"
"you heard on radio that Ms Deokaran, a whistleblower, has been killed"
"she was killed for blowing the whistle on corruption at Tembisa Hospital"
"you heard Ms Deokaran has been killed"
"She was a whistleblower on corruption at Tembisa Hospital"
"No, this one of the Babita Deokaran, I did not ask him"
"The Babita Deokaran matter, the fraud on the tender."
"Of Ms Deokaran."
"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."
"I already commented that when the news of the murder of Ms Deokaran happened, I was in Gauteng, I had a full report."
"it was indicated that the murder is about 200 million Tembisa tender"
"you still got to know about the award of the, rather the news about the fraud around the contract."
"You still got to know about the death of Ms Babita Deokaran."