Babita Deokaran, who was the department’s acting chief financial officer, was shot outside her home in Mondeor last month just moments after returning from the school run.
Police Minister Bheki Cele confirmed on Thursday that two more people had been arrested in connection with Babita Deokaran’s murder but did not say where.
Special Investigating Unit (SIU) head, Andy Mothibi, said that witnesses who felt unsafe should alert authorities like the SIU.
The report has already been leaked to the media and it has found that former Health Minister Zweli Mkhize acted unlawfully and improperly and it recommended that his family should repay R4 million.
The SIU was briefing the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) about its investigations into personal protective equipment (PPE) corruption and other cases.
Khusela Diko was implicated in a multi-million-rand personal protective equipment (PPE) tender saga involving her late husband, Chief Madzikane Diko.
The Hawks said that a person who was with Deokaran in her car and witnessed when she was shot was in a safe place and was not wounded in the shooting.
Babita Deokaran was shot outside her home in the south of Joburg a week ago, after dropping off her child at school. She was a key witness in the SIU's investigation into the PPE scandal in Gauteng.
In the wake of the murder of Gauteng Health Department official, Babita Deokaran, President Cyril Ramaphosa has praised her as a hero and a patriot for standing against corruption and has vowed to protect whistleblowers.
Seven people have been arrested after Babita Deokaran, a Gauteng health official and key witness in the SIU probe into PPE corruption, was shot and killed outside her home.
Deokaran, who was a witness in Gauteng's personal protective equipment (PPE) corruption scandal, was gunned down outside her house last Monday after dropping her daughter off at school.
The Gauteng health official was a witness in the PPE corruption probe.
Those who worked closely with her believe she may have been assassinated for her role in speaking out against personal protective equipment corruption in her department.
Seven suspects have been handcuffed in connection with Deokaran's murder.
She was one of the key witnesses in the SIU's investigation into the Gauteng Health Department's PPE corruption scandal.
Gauteng Premier David Makhura said that until the perpetrators of corruption were arrested, he and his government must be held responsible for the murder of senior official, Babita Deokaran.
Babita Deokaran, who served as the chief director of financial accounting in the Health Department, was shot several times outside her Mondeor home in the south of Johannesburg on Monday.
She was shot dead outside her house in the south of Johannesburg on Monday, with many believing that it was a hit. She was vocal about the alleged corruption that took place in her department amid a personal protective equipment corruption scandal and was a key whistleblower.
