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A senior Eastern Cape government official accused of bribing National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) investigators to drop an investigation into a questionable R69-million police tender will stand trial in January next year.

The Eastern Cape premier and ANC provincial chairperson has become the latest party bigwig to be endorsed for the fiercely contested position.

Former Eastern Cape health superintendent-general Dr Thobile Mbengashe has come out slugging in premier Oscar Mabuyane’s disciplinary inquiry against him, saying he never initiated the fraught tender to procure “scooter ambulances and clinics”, which underpins the hearing. Mbengashe’s counsel, advocate Fabian Pretorius, bluntly told the Office of the Premier inquiry, headed by advocate Peter Kroon SC, that the wrong evidence was placed before the Special Tribunal judge who reviewed and stoppe...

Former Eastern Cape health head of department Dr Thobile Mbengashe, now a special adviser in the office of the premier (OTP), must face a disciplinary inquiry initiated by Premier Oscar Mabuyane over his alleged role in the R10.14m scooter ambulance fiasco, the chair of the inquiry has ruled.