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AARON MOTSOALEDI
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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
President Cyril Ramaphosa
AARON MOTSOALEDI

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
‘Still a daughter of Johannesburg’: The Democratic Alliance’s federal chair, Helen Zille, now wants to fix Johannesburg if she’s elected mayor. Photo: DA/Helen Zille
ACTION SA

Zille goes all in for Joburg top job

The Democratic Alliance federal chair declined to commit to a time frame within which she planned to fix the city’s problems if elected mayor

  • Lunga Mzangwe
6 min read
Moo-ving money: A Special Tribunal heard that former health minister Zweli Mkhize, his wife May and their son Dedani concealed R11.5 million redirected from the Digital Vibes company during the Covid pandemic. Photo: File
CATTLE SALES

R11.5m Digital Vibes funds laundered through bogus cattle sales, SIU says

New evidence in the matter suggests that former health minister Zweli Mkhize and his family received funds funnelled through the sale of cattle and the purchase of a farm

  • Nkateko Joseph Mabasa
6 min read
‘Unsupervised, unstructured, non-standardised, unsafe and altogether substandard.’ This is what was said about the care at two public hospitals in the Northern Cape last year. But is the way quality is measured a fair test? (Delwyn Verasamy)
HEALTH

Unsafe and substandard. Is that what public healthcare in SA looks like?

Claims of poor standards at South Africa’s government health facilities are often bandied about — and get hackles raised when the National Health Insurance is mentioned, to boot

  • Linda Pretorius
  • Jacques Verryn
8 min read
Innovation in the health system is not a luxury, it is a necessity in the South African context. Photo: Denvor de Wee/Gallo Images/Foto24)
3D PRINTING

NHI: Innovations could help universal healthcare become a reality

Investment in African-led, context-specific technology such as 3D printing and artificial intelligence is vital

  • Cherise Dunn
5 min read
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana did not announce a budget allocation to plug the gap created by the termination of USAid funding to HIV/Aids organisations (Photo by Luke Dray/Getty Images)
BUDGET

No allocations for Pepfar in health budget

The recent termination of USAid to HIV/Aids and TB organisations in South Africa was a bone of contention in the 2025 budget

  • Aarti Bhana
3 min read
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi says medical aids cost too much. Will tax alone be enough to pay for NHI? We look at the numbers. (GCIS)
AGING POPULATION

Is tax alone enough to pay for the National Health Insurance?

The NHI Act says funding healthcare for all should come from tax but economic growth is in a vice and many people are without jobs

  • Linda Pretorius
  • Jacques Verryn
8 min read
Young people understand social media dynamics, peer-to-peer communication and community mobilisation in ways that can be used improve health services. Photo: Bulungula Incubator
ASONWABISA SIPATANA

Rural areas need community health workers — and so does the NHI

‘Nnomakhayas’ understand a community’s values, practices and problems, as well as modern medicine, making them effective carers

  • Sigrid Kite-Banks
The NHI is a constitutional Imperative for universal healthcare
NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE

The National Health Insurance scheme can work, this is how

The NHI is a constitutional Imperative for universal healthcare

  • Faiez Jacobs
6 min read
Democratic Alliance federal council chairperson Helen Zille. (Marco Longari/AFP)
ANC

Helen Zille is a ‘problem’ for the GNU and undermines John Steenhuisen as a leader, says ANCYL’s Collen Malatji

The ANCYL president says they will remove president Cyril Ramaphosa if things don’t improve

  • Lunga Mzangwe
4 min read
President Cyril Ramaphosa, Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen, and Deputy President Paul Mashatile. (File photo by RODGER BOSCH / AFP)
BELA ACT

Beef builds up in the cabinet clearing house

Paul Mashatile’s committee already has enough disputes between coalition partners to keep it busy every week for the next five years

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
AFRICA HEALTH

Advancing healthcare: African solutions for a global stage to top the agenda when Africa’s largest medical conference moves to the Mother City in October

Africa Health Exhibition & Congress is a platform for professional networking, learning from thought leaders, and engaging with healthcare innovation

  • Partner Content
5 min read
The NHI is a constitutional Imperative for universal healthcare (Dylan Bush)
BUSINESS UNITY SOUTH AFRICA
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PODCAST | Is there hope for changes to the NHI Act?

By the end of October, Business Unity South Africa (Busa) will submit a proposal to President Cyril Rampahosa with solutions to their concerns about the National Health Insurance…

  • Mia Malan
  • Yolanda Mdzeke
  • Danny Booysen
1 min read
Charm offensive: President Cyril Ramaphosa not only wooed the United Nations, he also championed the Gaza cause and found time for Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelenskiy (right). Photo: Anadolu/Getty Images
ANC

So far so good as Ramaphosa’s GNU nears the 100 day mark

Cyril’s away game can’t be faulted, like Mikel Arteta’s 2024 Arsenal, but with no red cards

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read