Pay back the money! This is the order the Bhisho portfolio committee on health has issued to Dr Ntombi Qangule, who received more than R1-million in overtime allowances that she did not qualify for.
And by close of business on June 19 the Eastern Cape department of health must submit proof to the portfolio committee that there is an immediately enforceable payment arrangement to recoup the funds it paid to Qangule, who is the director of tertiary and regional hospitals.
The former clinical doctor in Port Elizabeth has been coining it in overtime, although she ceased to be eligible for such payments when she accepted the management position in Bhisho.
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