The acting registrar of medical schemes is asking the Western Cape High Court to remove Duduza Khosana, the provisional curator of Samwumed, who the same court appointed in May, at the registrar’s behest. The registrar’s application is the second application seeking her removal. In August, Andre Maxwell, the scheme’s former deputy chair, lodged an urgent application seeking her removal or the curtailment of her powers on the grounds that her actions were causing irreparable harm to the 80,000-member scheme for unionised municipal workers. Dr Sipho Kabane, the acting registrar, recommended that the court appoint Khosana when he applied to put the scheme under curatorship in May. Khosana was previously the principal officer of Medshield medical scheme, which was placed under curatorship in 2012 after an investigation revealed the scheme had entered into a broker management agreement that had no value to the scheme. The urgent applications to remove or curtail Khosana’s powers will be ...
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