Slow progress in doctor placement kickback probe.

The national health department’s director of Labour Relations, Advocate Thomas Ngake, claimed the probe involved ‘a web’ connecting Home Affairs, the Health Professions Council and his own Foreign Workforce Management Programme (FWMP). He confirmed that the chief suspect was in mid-July being grilled at a separate in-camera internal disciplinary hearing following a forensic probe ‘dating back over several years,’ adding that a second suspect, a security officer, was also involved.