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upheld the dismissal of former CEO Joyce Mogale and late CFO Sikhumbuzo Zulu who were fired in 2019; they had been suspended since
February 2017 for irregularities in procurements totalling R200 million. The court also ordered Mogale to pay R22 million in damages to the NHLS. The court criticised the
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