The Hospital Association of South Africa will urge the government to use a multi-payer system to administer national health insurance claims.

Entrenching a values-based ethos at all levels.

Netcare was warned by a top specialist to stop Israeli "tourist transplants" but the company dismissed his advice and hid behind a legal façade.

Netcare on Friday said it was keen to continue with wage negotiations with the Democratic Nursing Association of SA until a solution was found.

Eight people, including five doctors, were expected to appear in the Durban Regional Court on Tuesday in connection with illegal organ transplants.

Five doctors have been charged with performing illegal kidney transplants, it was reported on Thursday.

Up to 4 000 nurses and administrative workers at Netcare, Africa's biggest private hospital group, launched a strike over pay on Wednesday.

Netcare posted a rise in profit for the year ended September 30, the JSE-listed private hospital group said on Monday.

Durban's disaster-management team and city officials are busy calculating the cost of damage caused during a heavy downpour on Tuesday night that continued into the early hours of Wednesday. Two oil refineries, hospitals, courts, homes, shacks, railway lines, buildings and roads were affected by the overnight storm.

Search-and-rescue workers saved 20 people trapped in cars and homes by rising water in a heavy overnight downpour in Durban. "We used a police boat to move many people away from the Island Hotel in Isipingo and we assisted several others who were stuck in cars due to rising flood water," said Captain Troy Alison.