Scopa was concerned about the reasons for the alleged R300 million debt the Road Accident Fund allegedly owed to Sunshine Hospital and whether the non-payment was legally defensible.
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) wants the former Road Accident Fund (RAF) CEO Collins Letsoalo and the former board of directors held personally liable for the litigation by the institution despite no prospects of success.
This came sharply when the watchdog body considered a second draft report on another section of their investigation into the RAF that focused on the litigation involving Sunshine Hospital, which treated motor road accident victims who had no medical aid.
Parliamentary legal advisor Fatima Ebrahim said the hospital’s co-owner and managing director, Ken Ford, made a submission that the RAF owed them R300 million as of July 2025, and that former RAF employees alleged unfair dismissal for conduct relating to the hospital.
“It was clear that the Sunshine Hospital matter involved hundreds of millions of Rand and that adverse court orders were increasingly being granted against the RAF, thereby resulting in an accumulation of interest and legal costs,” Ebrahim said.
