Panyaza Lesufi’s Tembisa hospital stunt a new low – even for the ANC

THE DA condemns Panyaza Lesufi and his ANC allies for exploiting the Tembisa Hospital SIU report for cheap political gain.

- NYANISO QWESHA | Cape Town

The report reveals that around R2 billion was stolen, turning patients into victims and tragically contributing to the death of Babita Deokoran.

The Gauteng government’s tone-deaf response to this was to host a prayer service in Tembisa under the banner of a “Prayer Day for Tembisa Hospital”. The immediate moral question is this: how can you pray — or even pretend to pray — for a hospital that your own cadres helped plunder and pillage, and where whistleblowers were targeted and killed.