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THE Special Tribunal has dismissed a leave to appeal challenge by former health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize’s daughter-in-law who allegedly received R5 million from Digital Vibes.

Sithokozile Mkhize tried to overturn the tribunal’s ruling by adding her company Azwakele Trading and

Projects, her husband Dedanimabhunu Mkhize’s company All-out Trading and businessman Yenziwe Sokhela’s Sirela Trading in the Special Investigating Unit’s (SIU’S) application to review and set aside two R150m National Health Insurance (NHI) and Covid-19 communications contracts.

Sokhela and Dedanimabhunu’s Tusokuhle Farming as well as Cedar

Falls Properties 34, which is owned by the former ANC treasurer-general’s wife Dr May Mkhize, also challenged the order authorising the SIU to add the companies in its bid to have the dodgy contract reviewed and set aside for lack of compliance with the applicable constitutional, statutory and regulatory provisions. The national health department paid Digital Vibes, owned by the former health minister’s senior associates Tahera Maher and Naadhira Mitha, more than R150m. | IOL