Masuku approaches High Court to have SIU findings quashed



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Masuku wants the conclusions and recommendations made against him to Prime Minister David Makhura to be declared illegal, unconstitutional and invalid.

FILE: Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku on July 20, 2020 inspects the readiness status of the Nasrec field hospital amid the province’s surge in coronavirus cases. Image: Kayleen Morgan / EWN

JOHANNESBURG – Axed Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku has urgently appealed to the High Court for the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) to quash the preliminary findings against him.

He wants the conclusions and recommendations made against him to Prime Minister David Makhura to be declared illegal, unconstitutional and invalid.

Masuku wants the court to annul the findings, with the costs, that were the basis for Makhura’s firing him. His case is expected to be heard next week.

Masuku, his wife Loyiso Masuku, who is also the shared services MMC in the city of Johannesburg, and presidential spokesperson Khusela Diko have been at the center of a multi-million rand tendering scandal after it became known that their department awarded a contract for personal protective equipment. to Diko’s husband.

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This week also saw the ANC in Gauteng decide to subject the former MEC and Diko to a disciplinary process.

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