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NW Health to fight court ruling─── LUCKY NKUYANE 15:53 Fri, 14 Dec 2018
The North West provincial government says it will be filling an urgent court appeal to the Labour Court against the reinstatement of the provincial Head of the Health Department before end of business today (Friday).
This as the embattled head of the department, Thabo Lekalakala, at the eleventh hour, lobbied for the court to reinstate him with immediate effect - despite his on-going internal disciplinary hearings. Premier Job Mokgoro’s spokesperson, Vuyisile Ngesi, tells OFM News that the premier was shocked and surprised to learn of Lekalakala's reinstatement which he was not afforded the opportunity to oppose. The departmental spokesperson, Tebogo Lekgethwane, told OFM News that Lekalakala is charged with procurement irregularities involving a R30 million payment to the Gupta-linked Mediosa Company and misrepresentation of facts after he stated he had worked as a chief of the director of the department.
Ngesi says during Lekalakala’s disciplinary hearing, on Tuesday and Wednesday, he applied to the Court on an urgent basis, and his application was unopposed.
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