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    SANDF probe a ‘cover-up for graft’

    Mar 07, 2021 4 minutes
    MZILIKAZI WA AFRIKA

    DOUBTS and aspersions are being cast over the SANDF’s decision this week to set up a three-man task team to investigate corruption within the defence force including how the army bought Covid-19 drug, Heberon Interferon-Alpha-2B, from Cuba for R260 million.

    The Defence Ministry announced in a statement on Thursday that Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has appointed former spooks – Zola Ngcakani, Billy Masethla and Dr Cassius Lubisi, to “investigate the veracity of allegations” relating to Defence Intelligence and the purchasing of Interferon B from Cuba”.

    A senior official in the SANDF has alleged that the investigation is a “cover-up”.

    The official, whose identity

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