Read what Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has up his sleeve for your medical aid.
‘Cue the now all-too-familiar pattern of patronage — houses, overseas trips, spa treatments’
‘I can’t mention who are the parties I am expecting litigation from but I can assure I know who they are.’
The health minister has presented the Medical Schemes Amendment and National Health Insurance Bills
“Whenever there is a crisis, I’m called in to solve them, but I don’t have the legal mechanism to prevent them,” says minister.
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi briefs the media on the current state of health in South Africa.
National health department deploys 200 officials to country’s beleaguered hospitals
Meanwhile, a lone specialist in the North West caters for 3.7-million people as four provinces are forced to send patients to Gauteng.
As it stands, the policy may be woolly and imprecise but its promise is too bold to ignore.
RCL Foods said in a statement on Friday that no trace of the listeria strain was found in the Free State polony facility of its subsidiary Rainbow
Listeriosis has already caused a fifth of processing industry workers to be laid off, analysts warn
Since announcing the class action plan last week, Attorney Richard Spoor has said his team has a mammoth task which may take years to come to fruition
If the lawsuits are successful, they could potentially result in hundreds of millions of rands awarded to victims and the families of those killed.
The Forum is concerned that South Africa’s entire processed meat industry has been implicated in the listeriosis outbreak
The regulations and management of food safety standards need to be overhauled, say experts
Motsoaledi’s utterances about avoiding certain street foods has heightened fears amongst consumers
After a two hour meeting on Monday, management told workers that the factory would be closed until further notice
The party has urged the education department to ensure that food sold to pupils does not contain polony following Sunday’s announcement
The company is one of the largest food manufacturers in the country, and the 7% fall equates to a R5.6-billion drop in its value
Pick n Pay as well as shops under its Boxer brand, have begun pulling the products, as have all supermarkets in the Shoprite group
With growth in SA lagging that of peers after a second recession in less than a decade, tax collections have dwindled
The question is: Can the disparate leadership pull together to save the party — and the country?
The fees conundrum could be solved to the detriment of healthcare
But if we want everyone to get quality care, something will have to give and it may not be your money, warn experts.
The province grasped at straws in a court appeal for relief regarding payouts for medical negligence
As Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi prepares to unveil the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill today, we tell you what you need to know about.
The newly released white paper could mean the end is nigh for medical aids.
A single health system is one step closer as the National Health Insurance gets green-lit
Analysts say this minister’s strong SACP connections and ANC support ensure he’s ‘too powerful politically’ for the president to fire.
A visibly emotional Gordhan struggled to hold back his tears.
An unprecedented number of senior NEC members, including six cabinet ministers, risked their jobs to urge Zuma to resign.
Supporters of ANC president Jacob Zuma will today thwart any attempt to oust him.