Hospital Employee Caught Stealing Patient's Food
The culprit was caught with the goods during a random search at the hospital’s gate
Hospital Employee Caught Stealing Patient's Food
An employee at a Limpopo Hospital is behind bars for stealing food meant for patients.
The culprit was caught with the goods during a random search at the Tshilidzini Hospital’s gate.
According to TimesLIVE, the stolen goods included tinned fish, milk, and beef stew.
The health department’s Thilivhali Muavha has condemned the act.
This alleged theft from the most vulnerable [which] also constitutes a breach of trust.
This was not the first such incident. ZiMOJA reports that two Letaba Hospital employees were charged with theft after they were caught with stolen food items in 2022.
Netizens were dismayed by the hospital worker’s theft however many alluded that the problems may be more widespread.
Meanwhile…
High Court in Mpumalanga sentenced 30-year-old Zanele Mkhonto to 20 years imprisonment for the gory murder of her boyfriend, a police officer, Sergeant Mandlenkosi Happy Thwala, 47.
Thwala was stationed at KaBokweni police station at the time of his demise.
Hospital Employee Caught Stealing Patient's Food
Mpumalanga National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) spokesperson, Monica Nyuswa said Mkhonto pleaded guilty in November 2023, and was subsequently convicted of murdering the police officer. Nyuswa said:
She told the court that she was in a romantic relationship with the deceased (Thwala) and they were residing together from January to July 2022, at Gedlembane, in Pienaar.
After realising that their relationship was volatile she left to her parental home.
On August 2, 2022, the NPA said Mkhonto visited Thwala in Gedlembane. During that visit, an altercation between the two ensued.
After the altercation, the police sergeant fell asleep and that is when Mkhonto took his service pistol and fatally shot him several times while he was in bed.
She then left the scene, taking the deceased’s firearm and vehicle.
On her way to her homestead in Masoyi, she came across a road block in Zwelisha, near KaBokweni, and she threw away the deceased’s firearm which was found by members of the public the following morning.
Upon arrival at her home, Mkhonto then informed her friend about the crime she had committed, and the police were alerted.
She was subsequently arrested and the State successfully opposed her release on bail.
