Long read. This is the text, edited and appended, of an affidavit submitted to the National Prosecutions Authority's (NPA) Western Cape office, the director of public prosecutions, in September 2021. (I’ve previously written about these cases in this blog.) These cases, as with others reported over the years involving the Western Cape and national public health system, and other state organs, show a pattern, a modus vivendi, of endemic corruption, illegality and unethical conduct. Nothing ever changes. Then as now the NPA is reluctant to or won’t prosecute corruption, politically sensitive cases and government officials. WC Health shields negligent unlicensed British doctor. NPA and Health Professions Council refuse to prosecute In 2001 Western Cape Health Department (WCHD) and Groote Schuur Hospital management chief medical superintendent Drs Peter Mitchell, outpatients director Tunc Numanoglu, orthopaedics unit head Mike Solomons and ...
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