Ousted board want Samwumed curator, Duduza Khosana, gone
Ousted deputy chairman, Andre Maxwell, says the changes made by the curator will render the scheme unsustainable
The provisional curator of Samwumed has cancelled contracts and proposed benefit changes which could render the scheme for unionized municipal workers unsustainable, an urgent court application seeking to remove her alleges.Andre Maxwell, the ousted deputy chairman of the board of the 80 000-strong scheme, filed the urgent application in the Cape High Court last week asking the court to remove Duduza Khosana who was appointed by the same court in May.Maxwell and 12 other ousted trustees have opposed the curatorship order, which was brought by the acting registrar of medical schemes Dr Sipho Kabane on the grounds that the board of the scheme was dysfunctional as a result of conflict in the South African Municipal Workers Union. Nine trustees are appointed from the union’s executive committee. The union matter has since been settled.But in his latest application, Maxwell asks the court to urgently remove Khosana and replace her with the former CEO of Medscheme, Kevin Aron, or alternat...
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