NHI Constitutional Challenge: AfriForum’s Legal Action

Civil society group AfriForum has served a summons on President Cyril Ramaphosa and Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi. This intensifies its court bid to have the National Health Insurance (NHI) Act declared unconstitutional. The organisation instructed the Sheriff...

AIDS Drug Tender Controversy Raises Serious Questions

South Africa’s AIDS Drug Tender Controversy has escalated in Parliament, after Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi sought to distance himself from the department’s latest antiretroviral procurement saga. He told MPs that director-general Sandile Buthelezi, as the...

Medical Negligence Compensation Reform Impacts on Budgets

South Africa’s system for compensating victims of medical negligence is under severe pressure. Nowhere is that clearer than in the Eastern Cape. The province paid out more than R630m in medical negligence claims in the 2024/25 financial year. That is about 2% of its...

Malaria Financing In Africa: Strategies and Solutions

As African leaders met in Addis Ababa for the 39th AU Summit, malaria was back in the spotlight. Malaria Financing In Africa is now more urgent as new data indicate that the disease is increasing again after years of progress. That reversal is colliding with shrinking...