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BusinessLive reports that the 13 dismissed trustees of a medical aid scheme for unionised municipal workers, Samwumed, are contesting the curatorship order on the scheme.
Some of its members have also raised concerns over the provisional curator’s suspension of four of its senior employees. However, Duduza Khosana, provisional curator of Cape Town-headquartered Samwumed, which covers more than 80,000 lives, said last week she had uncovered irregularities, which she had reported to the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) and would also report to the Western Cape high court which had appointed her at the beginning of May. The allegations against Khosana, who is based in Gauteng, are that she is paying herself R240,000 a month and incurring expenses of R200,000 a month — such as flights, accommodation and car hire – for a hefty R5.3m bill a year to the scheme. Khosana, who was the principal officer of Medshield before that scheme was put under curatorship in 2013, denies she is earning this amount, but would not disclose what she was earning. Samwumed collects contributions of more than R1bn a year and had R1bn in reserves at the end of 2016. The CMS applied for the appointment of a curator this year as conflict in the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) had, it argued, rendered the board of trustees dysfunctional.
- Read this report by Laura du Preez in full at BusinessLive
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