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Can talks save South Africa’s NHI from a courtroom war?

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has met the South African Medical Association — one of the organisations taking him to court about the National Health Insurance Act — to talk…

  • Mia Malan
  • Anna-Maria van Niekerk
13 min read
Norbert Ndjeka was born on World TB Day. Decades later, he would reshape how South Africa treats the deadliest forms of the disease. (Supplied)
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How a boy born on World TB Day helped turn the tide on SA’s deadliest TB

Norbert Ndjeka was born on World TB Day. Decades later, he would reshape how South Africa treats the deadliest forms of the disease

  • Sean Christie
16 min read
President Cyril Ramaphosa
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Ramaphosa pauses NHI implementation pending Constitutional Court ruling

The Constitutional Court will hear challenges to the National Health Insurance Act from 5 to 7 May 2026

  • Mandisa Makgakga
4 min read
Minister of Health Aaron Motsoaledi.
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Aaron Motsoaledi: Health

SCORE: C The Department of Health earns a C this year. Unlike previous years of total decline, the department hit major targets, particularly in its massive HIV and TB programs.…

  • MG Reporter
1 min read
To end Aids by 2043, the South African government says it could get a group of local pharmaceutical companies to make generic shots of lenacapavir from 2027 onwards. There is, however, a hitch. None of the companies that will be involved have a licence to make the jab. (Julia Koblitz/ Unsplash)
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SA wants to make its own six-monthly HIV prevention jabs by 2027. But there’s a hitch

None of the companies that will be involved have a licence from the inventor of Lenacapavir, Gilead Sciences, to make the jab

  • Mia Malan
9 min read
One in 10 clinics in South Africa will start to hand out a twice-a-year anti-HIV jab as early as February. The country’s medicines regulator, Sahpra, says it’s on track to announce its registration decision within the next few days, by the end of October. So who should get LEN first? (Anna-Maria van Niekerk)
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The six-monthly anti-HIV jab could be in 360 clinics by February. Who should get the first doses?

The country’s medicines regulator Sahpra says it’s on track to announce its registration decision by the end of October

  • Mia Malan
10 min read
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has raided the Sandton, Johannesburg, home of businessman Hangwani Maumela, seizing high-end vehicles and artworks as part of an R820 million asset recovery operation linked to wholesale looting at Tembisa Hospital, in Ekurhuleni. Photo: File
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Massive raid part of asset recovery in Tembisa Hospital tender fraud

The Special Investigating Unit has seized luxury vehicles and artworks worth millions from businessman Hangwani Maumela’s Joburg mansion as part of an R820 million asset recovery

  • Nkateko Joseph Mabasa
2 min read
The health department anticipates that it could start to use government money to buy cheaper generics of anti-HIV jab the lenacapvir by April 2027. (Unsplash)
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SA plans anti-HIV jab roll-out at hundreds of clinics by April

The health department hopes to make the twice-a-year anti-HIV injection lenacapavir available soon and to be buying generics by 2027

  • Mia Malan
11 min read
How can data help the health department make the most of the R622 million extra it received for South Africa’s HIV treatment programme? (Flickr)
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Most people on ARVs stay on them. Does our health system know that?

The health department has R622 million extra to prop up South Africa’s HIV treatment programme in the wake of foreign aid cuts, but it’s only about a fifth of the total gap

  • Linda Pretorius
  • Jacques Verryn
9 min read
How close is South Africa to meeting its HIV treatment goals? We look at the numbers. (NIAID/Wikimedia)
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Motsoaledi’s big HIV treatment jump: Is it true?

Last month, the health minister said more than half a million previously diagnosed people with HIV have been started on treatment since the end of February

  • Linda Pretorius
  • Jacques Verryn
8 min read
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The case of the minister and the HIV activists: Are we entering denialism 2.0?

Activists say the health minister is in denial over the impact of US funding cuts and accusing them and the media of overblowing the crisis and spreading disinformation

  • Mia Malan
15 min read
The constitutional court’s decision to decriminalise the private use of cannabis in 2018 was a seminal moment in South African history.
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Editorial: Nuance is absent from cannabis conversation

The latest gut punch arrived earlier this month with Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi gazetting a blanket ban on edible cannabis products

  • Editorial
2 min read
With vacancy rates for public sector doctors ranging between 5% and 22% — South Africa can simply not afford to have doctors without jobs. (Canva)
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Budget 2025: Jobs for only 800 of 1 800 unemployed doctors

This is despite vacancy rates of 5% to 22% in government clinics and hospitals

  • Bhekisisa Team
6 min read
The Gauteng government says businesses that missed the registration window will be closed down. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
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Non-registered food-handling businesses risk fines, arrests and closures, government reiterates

Friday is the last day for such outlets, including spaza shops, to register in line with a government directive issued after children’s deaths from contaminated food

  • Aarti Bhana
2 min read
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Aaron Motsoaledi

SCORE: C Since Aaron Motsoaledi’s appointment, the department has been faced with a spike in foodborne illness, which initiated investigations to trace the cause and the…

  • MG Reporter
1 min read