Without their presence South Africa’s national health insurance cannot be implemented successfully to provide quality healthcare.
A downgrade because of rampant expenditure will have severe fiscal implications for SA.
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/ 13 October 2009
Afrikaans identity politics at Stellenbosch distracts from real challenges, writes a group of the university’s academics.
The Muslim Marriages Bill has highlighted the problem of the many Muslims who live their lives according to sharia law when it suits them.
As Jews and South Africans, we have noted with deep concern the report of John Dugard, the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967. The report, published on January 29 2007, is currently under discussion within the United Nations Human Rights Council. It reveals substantial rights abuses by the Israeli government that we find abhorrent.
United States President George W Bush’s recent trip to Africa may have catapulted Charles Taylor’s Liberia to front-page headlines across the world, but a more serious, Africa-wide problem has been tragically overlooked.