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Sibusiso Khanyi successfully sued for negligence last February after he was born at Pholosong Hospital, East Rand, with cerebral palsy on December 2 1999.

Interest was charged at 15.5% a month on the R9.25-million awarded by the Johannesburg High Court.

Another late payment by the office of Premier Nomvula Mokonyane has added R320000 in interest to the R6.25-million payment due to Shabbier Nagel, who had a leg amputated when he went for heart surgery at Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria.

Nagel has been promised that he would get his money on Friday.

Mokonyane's office was granted leave to appeal the Sibusiso court decision, which lapsed on July 22.

Mokonyane's office on Monday decided to abandon the appeal and pay Sibusiso and his family.

"They have made a fair offer," said their lawyer, Gary Austin, adding that he could not reveal details of the agreement.

Sibusiso's mother Martha said she was happy her family would get the money soon as it would change their lives for the better.

DA health spokesman Jack Bloom said yesterday: "This is a real fiasco as this money could have been saved if Premier Nomvula Mokonyane had taken the sensible decision earlier not to pursue an appeal that was likely to fail.

"Her legal advisers are utterly incompetent because they allowed their appeal to lapse, and then scrambled for condonation even as the sheriff arrived to remove goods from the premier's office [on January 18]."

He said someone in Mokonyane's office should be "held accountable for this mess".

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Feb 2, 2012

pik_it_up

lets wait and see if they really do deliver...
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Feb 2, 2012

MorenaWaPolelo

Another late payment by the office of Premier Nomvula Mokonyane has added R320000 in interest to the R6.25-million payment due to Shabbier Nagel, who had a leg amputated when he went for heart surgery at Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria
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How can this happen your leg is removed when you go for a heart surgery, what is happening here??? Mma Mokonyane some one must do an audit on this.... how much exactly are we going to fork out for Malpractice. Who is responsible and how are you going to recover the money?
Also you need to fire your stupid advisors they are costing the province money and stop doing young boys its a distraction.
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Feb 2, 2012

Papage

This woman is becoming a joke, can someone advise her to vacate her seat, I think Gouteng need a man with balls, not Majaivane party animal Nomvula.
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Feb 2, 2012

rasefatee

She was still nagotiating a million rand bribe with the victim parents before effecting the claim. what else is she waiting for.Mr shower please deploy the btch to the male prison cells maybe she will learn how to deliver
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Feb 2, 2012

RobinH

Get the additional costs from her private funds ("w e a lth" is deemed vulgar by our dear moderator), as she is personally responsible for thei travesty with her arrogance and constant delaying tactics. I wrote a longer more articulate comment that "passed" thee moderator but subsequently disappeared, no doubt due to complaints from some or other servile creep.
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Feb 2, 2012

ayobaness

this b!tch o ya ntena
all she knowz is drinkin nd drinkin nd groovin
pay the billz wena

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Feb 2, 2012

sekhebereshe

this woman have no intension of fixing this mess!!!!!
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Feb 2, 2012

RobinH

I still won't believe her assurances, as experience has shown that they mean less than nothing. One hopes that Sowetan will publish facts about ACTUAL PAYMENT. Till then this is all just hot air.
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Feb 2, 2012

uMnuz

This picture says it all for me, the wrong person at the front. Rotten apples dont fall too far from the tree.
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Feb 2, 2012

cornelius

Just like that government incompetence costs us, the taxpayer R1.4, which could have been used to build a house, or pay for someone's educastion, whatever. How long will this wasting of our money, at the expense of the needy, be tolerated ?
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