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THE recent findings by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) at Tembisa Hospital are both shocking and revealing.

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The brazen looting of R2 billion by a politically connected syndicate is a direct attack on the South African people. It stole money meant for medicine and machines, leaving poor and desperate patients to suffer. But we must ask a simple question: is it really possible that this kind of organ-ised plunder was only happening at one hospital? The scale of the theft in Gauteng suggests a sophisticated network. It is inconceivable to expect that such greed was confined to a single location. The methods used - fraudulent contracts, inflated prices, and shell companies - are a cancer that can spread anywhere p