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Babita Deokaran was a civil servant who took a stand against corruption and paid for her uprightness with her life.
On a cold morning in August 2021, three weeks after reporting suspicions of graft at Gauteng's Tembisa Hospital, she was shot 12 times as she returned home after dropping her daughter at school.
This documentary is a melding of never-before-seen home footage, exclusive interviews with her relatives, and a dive into a News24 investigation, titled 'Silenced', which exposed rampant syndicate activity, shell company networks and the politically connected who scored millions in dubious trade.
READ: SILENCED | Tembisa tender mafia: Syndicates expand and look to other hospital feeding troughs
She stumbled upon the first shades of a well-entrenched tender extraction syndicate, which saw money meant to serve the sick and dying stolen.
'Silenced: Why Babita Deokaran was murdered' gives her a voice from beyond the grave.
Coming soon to News24.
