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PRETTY FLY FOR A WHITE GUY: Francois Venter is a big rock climber who once drank tequila with the virologist rockstar Dexter Holland of The Offspring. He’s also one of the country’s leading HIV researchers. (Delywn Verasamy)
AIDS DENIALISM

HIV research: Professor screw it, let’s do it

Francois Venter talks about his unorthodox inaugural lecture, his work during the Aids crisis and his shoot-from-the-hip fix of our healthcare system

  • Sean Christie
17 min read
A cancer patient receives treatment.
COUNTERFEIT MEDICINES

Fake medicines: South Africa’s silent epidemic

There is an urgent need to prevent the proliferation of counterfeit and substandard pharmaceuticals

  • Fentse Maseko
5 min read
Generic medicine produced locally are the cornerstone of affordable healthcare.
AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE

A prescription for Gauteng’s health: Generics, state pharma and the power of local

Enabling the use of generics, supporting local businesses and setting up a state pharmaceutical company would boost healthcare

  • Fentse Maseko
5 min read
Project Thusano was initially intended to focus on the maintenance and repair of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) operational vehicle fleet but has morphed to include expensive supplementary agreements such as training soldiers as medical practitioners and mechanical engineers in Cuba. Photo: Rajesh Jantilal/AFP/Getty Images
AUDITOR GENERAL

Department of defence still reviewing SA-Cuba agreements

It has been 19 months since then defence minister Thandi Modise said the bilateral agreement and its controversial sub-contracts were being assessed

  • Des Erasmus
4 min read
DA chief whip Siviwe Gwarube. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy
ANC HEALTHCARE POLICY

National Health Insurance: DA cites government failures and risk of looting

The official opposition has said it will approach the court to challenge the NHI Act

  • Lunga Mzangwe
2 min read