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Clerk dismissed for taking home a lost phone
The Mercury
|May 22, 2026
A HOSPITAL clerk's decision to take a lost cellphone home rather than leaving it in safekeeping at the hospital came at a high price after she was fired.
Sandra Opperman turned to the Cape Town Labour Court in a bid to have her dismissal overturned, but the court turned down her application after finding that she never explained why she took the phone in the first place. Opperman had worked at George Hospital in the Western Cape as an administrative clerk for 28 years and had an unblemished employment record before her dismissal.
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