In February 2017, she resigned from the Executive Council and from the Gauteng Provincial Legislature after the Health Ombud, Malegapuru Makgoba, released a report which implicated her in the scandal.

[2] After completing secondary schooling, she qualified as a Teacher and went on to study for an Advanced Diploma in Economics with the University of the Western Cape.

[9] Jules Browde, then the Integrity Commissioner in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature, investigated at the request of the opposition Democratic Alliance; he found that the deal had been "perfectly legitimate".

Mahlangu Replaced Hlongwa as MEC of Health on 8 May 2009 after the National Elections, as part of Nomvula Mokonyane's first provincial cabinet.

[12] Shortly after Mahlangu conducted a review of projects and on 1 July 2009 she wrote a letter to 3P Consulting stating that the department was cancelling the extended agreement.

There was extensive litigation between the parties and on 18 February 2010 the South Gauteng High Court (Lamont J) granted a declaration that the services agreement between 3P Consulting and the department was validly concluded and extended.

The liquidators applied for the appointment of a commissioner to investigate the company's affairs and to determine whether it should continue with the litigation against the department to recover the claim.

[14][15] In July 2014, The National Prosecuting Authority applied to the South Gauteng High Court to place preservation orders on any claims that 3P Consulting and Baoki may have filed against the Department of Health Gauteng, effectively attaching such claims as proceeds of unlawful activities, following attaching of Hlongwa's luxury home.

Professor Keith Bolton, who was also the head of paediatrics at Rahima Moosa Hospital, helped compile the report which concluded that this had been an unusual case.

[20][21] After less than two years in the health portfolio, on 2 November 2010, Mahlangu was appointed MEC for Economic Development in a major cabinet reshuffle by Premier Mokonyane.

The regulations were meant to discourage the trading of alcohol on Sundays and religious holidays, as well as prohibiting any shebeen or tavern from operating within 500 metres of a school or place of worship.

Mahlangu was ordered to pay back the R7309 she used to buy leather goods with her government-issue credit card in Istanbul, Turkey, during a visit in 2013.

[37] From January 2010 to the end of the 2014/15 financial year, the provincial department of health paid out about R544 million in damages and settlements relating to medical negligence cases.

[38] Some of the medical negligence cases include, Security guards turning away patients from the clinics, leading to at least two deaths in 2015,[39] and severe brain damage with cerebral palsy, suffered by a baby boy where hospital staff allegedly failing to properly monitor him after birth in 2007.

Experts, families and activists warned that the organisations could not provide the high-level care most Life Esidimeni patients needed.