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Trade unions have blasted health privateers for an “attack on millions of South Africans,” placing their profits over access to healthcare.
The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (NEHAWU) hit out after a pressure group of health practitioners and academics wrote a stinging nine-page letter attacking South African Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi over the implementation of South Africa’s National Health Insurance (NHI).
The group warned the plans were “poorly researched” and accused the government of “losing control of the NHI narrative,” focusing on Mr Motsoaledi’s poor handling of the project.
The Defence Universities Alliance is a bit to co-opt higher education into the wider drive to war — we should resist as earlier generations of scientists did, argue say ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT of SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
1943-2025: How one man’s unfinished work reveals the lethal lie of ‘colour-blind’ medicine
Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS
As the Alliance of Sahel States and southern African nations advance pan-African goals, the African Union must listen and learn rather than parroting the Western line on these positive developments, writes ROGER McKENZIE