SABC fires 123 employees for fraud

THE public broadcaster has fired 123 employees after its investigation into allegations of medical aid fraud.
Last year, the SABC said about 200 of its staff members had allegedly “colluded” with medical practitioners to defraud the broadcaster’s medical aid scheme which is run by Medscheme.
SABC spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago said they launched an investigation into about 200 staff.
They then charged 134 staff and after a disciplinary process, the SABC found that 11 staff were found not guilty of the charges.
The remaining 123 staff have been dismissed with immediate effect, Kganyago said.
“For now, this is the end of the investigation because we went through the investigation and the discplinary process, therefore anything that comes up will be a new matter,” Kganyago said.
Meanwhile, SABC chief operations officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng said: “The SABC remains committed to rooting out corruption and fraud and we take such cases seriously”.