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Gauteng Health MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko addressed the post-budget briefing at the Provincial Legislature on July 16, 2025.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has again called for the removal of the Gauteng Health MEC, Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko and the Health Department head, Lesiba Malotana.
This follows a revelation that the department has an outstanding debt of R8 billion for the 2024-2025 financial year.
The DA says 12% of the country’s R67 billion budget for the current financial year will be spent on paying last year’s debt, further crippling service delivery at health facilities.
In the Auditor-General’s latest report, the health department has again been flagged for financial non-compliance, failing across all key audit areas.
The DA’s Gauteng Shadow MEC for Health, Jack Bloom says, “Every year the auditor general comes out with a scathing report on the Gauteng Health Department. For many years now, she’s been saying that there’s absolutely no consequences for the officials who haven’t done their job in procuring tenders, supply chain management, and preventing irregular and fruitless expenditure.”
“The same officials are still in charge of that department, and that’s why we have the problem. The MEC and the head of department need to be removed. Because they’re the ones in charge of this department for quite a long time, and it just seems to get worse and worse,” he adds.
