DURBAN - A Durban businessman who recently won a court case against the University of KwaZulu-Natal said he had received death threats.
In January, the Durban High Court granted Visham Panday an order giving him access to information held by the university regarding a pay-for-placement scandal at the institution's Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine.The UKZN has largely kept secret the details of its five-year-long pay-for-placement probe at its medical school, saying it didn’t want to jeopardise the matter.
But court action launched by Panday forced the institution to reveal that it had so far spent R73.5 million on the investigation. A large amount was spent protecting Avril Sahadew – the lead investigator who now stands accused of defeating the ends of justice.“My life is in danger. I’ve been followed, I’m walking with bodyguards and I’m not going to live my life like this.”Panday said he planned to take further court action as he believed the institution was not being truthful about the amount it had spent on the probe so far.