EC health department loses bid to stop R400m in claim payouts
Judgment referred to NDPP to consider possible prosecution of accounting officers
The broke provincial health department may have to immediately cough up almost R400m, with interest, in negligence claims to dozens of successful litigants after the department, the treasury and the premier’s office failed in a high court bid to stop the payments...
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