Deokaran remembered for her integrity, compassion five years on
Shri Mariamman Temple honours Babita Deokaran with prayer in Mount Edgecombe, Durban, on the 5th anniversary of her death Seelan Archary says they hold this prayer for the first-time on the day Deokaran was gunned down outside her home in Johannesburg after exposing fraud and… — SABC News (@SABCNews) August 23, 2026 She had exposed R850 million in suspicious and fraudulent payments, as well as tender irregularities at Tembisa Hospital.
On Sunday morning, the Shri Mariammen Temple in Mount Edgecombe in Durban, together with her family, held a prayer service to commemorate the fifth anniversary of her assassination.
Deokaran was a senior official in the Gauteng Department of Health and a whistleblower who was assassinated outside her home on August 23, 2021.
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