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President Cyril Ramaphosa with late former deputy president David Mabuza.(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
AFRICAN LEADERS
Video

Mabuza’s Russian jaunts and the slippery consequences of medical tourism

For more than five years the deputy president has remained steadfast in his right to travel abroad to receive medical treatment

  • Luke Feltham
9 min read
People’s temperature are being measured at a border between Abuja and the Nasarawa State on March 30 2020, after Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari called for a lockdown to limit the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. – Over 20 million Nigerians on Monday scrambled to prepare for lockdown in sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest city Lagos and the capital Abuja, as the continent struggled to curb the spread of the coronavirus. President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered a two-week “cessation of all movements” in the key cities in a bid to ward off an explosion of cases in Africa’s most populous country. (Photo by Kola Sulaimon/AFP via Getty Images)
ABBA KYARI

Covid-19 grounds Nigeria’s medical tourists

The country’s elites, including the president, travelled abroad for treatment but now they must use the country’s neglected health system

  • Aanu Adeoye
7 min read
ENTREPRENEUR

‘Scales fell from my eyes’

Ziggy Owei describes herself as “a living example” that entrepreneurship can be taught.

  • Vusikhaya Mancapa
4 min read
MEDICAL TOURISM

Tourists seek SA nip and tuck, with safari on the side

More and more foreign tourists are coming to SA for a little nip and tuck at the country’s private hospitals, with a safari on the side.

  • Staff Reporter
3 min read