[TOP STORY] Jeff Wicks on how syndicates bled Tembisa Hospital of billions

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‘One good example is a heavy-duty plastic bucket. One of the companies in that network sold four of these buckets to Tembisa Hospital for about R40 000. Those buckets are really only valued in extreme cases at not more than R200 each,’ says author and News24 investigative journalist.

3 Oct 9AM English South Africa Business News · Politics

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