Amid the scramble to secure a healthy supply of Covid-19 vaccines, the SA government has been accused of not acting fast enough. Deputy director-general of health Dr Anban Pillay, who has been ...

National Health Minister Joe Phaahla says he needed to be armed with the SIU report before suspending Deputy Director-General Dr Anban Pillay over the Digital Vibes contract.

Dr Anban Pillay, the health department’s acting director-general. Photo: Gallo Images / Financial Mail / Russell Roberts Eighteen people, including the Department of Health’s former acting ...

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has placed former health department acting director-general Dr Anban Pillay at the centre of the Digital Vibes tender scandal, recommending that he be ...

National health department deputy director-general Dr Anban Pillay says SA will know in early January when it will receive its share of Covid-19 vaccines.

Dr Anban Pillay shall receive a final written warning valid for 15 months and suspension without pay for three months, which will be followed by salary level demotion for a period of 12 months. Mr ...

Acting director-general of health Dr Anban Pillay has criticised ministerial advisory committee (MAC) member Prof Glenda Gray for labelling the government’s risk-adjusted Covid-19 strategy ...

However, Deputy DG Dr Anban Pillay, also implicated, still has a job. Department of Health Director-General Dr Sandile Buthelezi, accused of approving over R60m in payments to Digital Vibes, ...

There is good reason to control the cost of medicines and South Africa is not alone in doing so, Dr Anban Pillay, the director of pharmaceutical economic evaluation at the Department of Health ...

It was reported on Monday that SAMRC had written to the health department's director-general Dr Anban Pillay stating that it apologised for recent comments made by Gray in the media.

South Africa is anywhere between three and 10 days behind on testing, depending on whether you ask Health Minister Zweli Mkhize or his acting director-general, Dr Anban Pillay. And if you ask the ...

Former health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize’s conduct in manipulating tender processes to award Digital Vibes a R150-million contract with his department was “at worst unlawful”, according to a ...