SowetanLive reports that a Gauteng health employee who has been embroiled in a protracted legal battle with the government over her dismissal nine years ago has claimed another victory after the Labour Court authorised a sheriff of the court to attach the department's assets.  

Lindiwe Malatse's dismissal was overturned by the bargaining council in January with backdated pay, but her arbitration award was apparently not complied with. She has now obtained a writ of execution ordering the attachment of movable goods to the value of more than R2m.  Malatse was employed as facility manager at the Forensic Pathology Service Diepkloof in Soweto. In 2011, she was charged with fraud, corruption, dishonesty and fruitless expenditure, among other things.  Following disciplinary hearings, she was dismissed on 20 August 2015.  She appealed the matter, but the decision was upheld.  In December last year, her matter was heard in the public health and social development sectorial bargaining council.  Commissioner Adv Ronnie Bracks ruled that Malatse should be reinstated on the same terms of employment from 20 August 2015.  Malatse told Sowetan that she has been reporting for duty since the beginning of February, but has not received a salary.  Department of Health spokesperson Kwara Kekana said the arbitration award could not be enforced because of a stay order granted by the Labour Court on 11 February.  Malatse’s lawyer, Adv Malesela Teffo, dismissed the department's claims, saying if his client was not supposed to be at work it should produce a court order to this effect. .

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Noxolo Majavu at SowetanLive

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