Articles by Azarrah Karrim

Health DG, IDT CEO paved way for dodgy R836m oxygen plant contracts

Signed appointment letters and related documents reveal that the National Department of Health’s (NDoH) top official and his counterpart at the Independent Development Trust (IDT) played key roles in an allegedly unlawful project to install oxygen plants at state hospitals….


10 December 2024

Global Fund deploys inspectors to probe R800m health contract after ‘ghost contractor’ exposé

The Global Fund, one of the world’s largest health financiers, is sending its inspectors to South Africa in response to allegations of tender fraud linked to an R800-million contract it funded, exposed in a joint Daily Maverick and amaBhungane investigation. …


14 November 2024

Alleged tender fraud, shock ‘death’ of contractor cloud R836m oxygen plants project 

An obscure company that won a R428-million tender to bring life-saving healthcare equipment to public hospitals may have done so on the back of allegedly fraudulent documents.  A joint Daily Maverick and amaBhungane investigation has identified discrepancies in the regulatory…


11 November 2024

Bizarre invoice, tax issues and political ties: company scores ‘irregular’ R150m health contract

The National Department of Health (NDOH) dodged legislation and regulations to grant a little-known company, Brainwave Projects SA, a R122-million contract. This was after Brainwave tried unsuccessfully to bill the department for earlier work done under its foreign technology partner…


16 October 2024