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The 1 Military Hospital in Thaba Tshwane, South Africa's biggest military hospital continues to be in a state of disrepair and is reported to be falling apart in spite of millions of rands having been spent on it over the past 20 years. This comes as the renovations to the hospital continue to hit one snag after another with some parts of the hospital still under construction more than 10 years after renovations commenced. The renovation project which began in 1999 initially estimated to cost R232 million has continued to be beset by controversy as some of the floors are still unfinished after government spent more than R431 million towards the project by March 2011.
In 2001, Public Works launched the 1 Military Hospital RAMP with the aim of the RAMP having been to restore1 Military Hospital as the flagship hospital in the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) stable. In 2022, IOL reported that then Minister of Defence Minister Thandi Modise was forced to apologise after an investigation found that the bungled repair and maintenance project at the hospital was marred by irregular expenditure of more than R156 million. Almost 15 years later, the situation has not changed much.
This has been revealed by the recent visit by members of the Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Defense and the Portfolio Committee on Defense and Military Veterans following this past week's oversight visit to the facility. When it was constructed in 1972, the..
. Siyabonga Sithole.
