NEW BY-LAW TO DEVELOP AND REGULATE TOWNSHIP ECONOMIES WELCOMED

Thirty years after the transition from apartheid to democracy, in the midst of a spate of child deaths blamed on the sale of contaminated and/or old food, government has promulgated legislation to regulate township businesses. The Standard Draft By-Law for Township Economies has been in the works for some time and is therefore not a knee-jerk reaction to the recent poisoning incidents.

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WE SUPPORT NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE, BUT MORE WORK REQUIRED PRIOR TO IMPLEMENTATION

South Africa cannot abandon its Constitutional responsibilities to develop a just and fair State on the basis of the government’s track-record of incompetence. Whether or not the State is presently competent to manage the proposed National Health Insurance system is not the question. The question is: Is it the right thing to do? And, if it’s the right thing to do, how do all of us – that’s the state, medical professionals and citizens – contribute to its competent management?

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