Jack Bloom: Political connection, political protection, political interference… and the looting continues

The dark triad of criminal tenderpreneurs, crooked cops and captured politicians has not only cost the country billions, but has led to the loss of lives of an untold number of people. Following the latest revelations about the R2-billion looting of Tembisa Hospital, Jack Bloom, the Democratic Alliance Shadow MEC for Health in Gauteng, tells BizNews he believes that the syndicates are still busy in other hospitals. “The vultures are still there.” Bloom warns that unless people at the top of the Gauteng Health Department were replaced, “this looting is just going to continue”. He also laments the “immense implications… about political connections…and political protection”. And, commenting on the death from a mysterious fall in Paris of former Police Minister Minister Nathi Mthethwa - just a week after being named at the Madlanga Commission, Bloom says: “… you can't help but sort of make an inference that perhaps it was what was coming up at the Commission and that you know he was possibly implicated….the tentacles are all over the place. They really are. We have a Mafia State.  You get rid of one criminal syndicate, another takes over, but they seem to work together.” As for the still unanswered question as to who ordered the hit on whistleblower Babita Deokaran, Bloom says: “I think we can have our suspicions now because now we see people who are embedded in networks and the police are implicated as well because none of this could have happened without high-level collusion.”

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