Deokaran remembered for her integrity, compassion five years on
Babita Doekaran was a whistleblower who was assassinated outside her home on August 23, 2021
The family of Babita Deokaran, a senior official in the Gauteng Department of Health, remembers her with deep gratitude for her integrity and compassion. Deokaran was a whistleblower who exposed fraudulent payments and tender irregularities at Tembisa Hospital, totaling R850 million. She was tragically assassinated outside her home on August 23, 2021, after exposing these offenses.
On the fifth anniversary of her death, the Shri Mariamman Temple in Mount Edgecombe, Durban, held a prayer service in her honor, marking the first time such a service was held on the day of her assassination. Her brother, Soorash, expressed that five years later, the family is still profoundly saddened by her untimely demise. "Babita was very humble and always ready to help anyone.
She lived a life of integrity, and it's incredibly painful to see how she was cruelly taken away from us," he said.
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