Issue a public apology and retraction by Monday or face legal action.
Thats the gauntlet thrown down to KwaZulu-Natal transport MEC Siboniso Duma by private ambulance company Advanced Life Support ALS Paramedics after he accused them of bulldozing their way into accident scenes, bullying law enforcement, inflating casualty numbers and refusing to treat dying patients without medical aid.
Attorney Wesley J Rodgers, acting on behalf of ALS Paramedics, sent Duma a 7-page letter on Friday, after the politician addressed media at the scene of a minibus taxi and truck crash in Lotus Park, south of Durban, on Thursday. Eleven people died, and eight others were injured.
