Life Esidimeni: NGO received payments months after being shut down
It has emerged that an NGO continued to receive money from
government, months after it closed its doors.
This shocking revelation was made during the Life Esidimeni arbitration hearings.
The owner of the Anchor Centre implicated in the Life Esidimeni tragedy says she continued to receive payments from the health department three months after the NGO was shut down.
Dorothy Franks is testifying before the arbitrations hearings into the deaths of 141 psychiatric patients.
Five of these patients died under Frank's care.
Former deputy chief justice Dikgang Moseneke put this to Franks: "Why did you submit claims after you'd been told your operations were not up to standard and had been shut down?"
Franks responded: "Because that was the agreement with the CEO."
She says it was a question of how the workers would be paid if government payments dried up.