Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi has earned a reputation as one of the straighter arrows in the executive. Despite it being widely acknowledged that the public health system is a mess, and that our hospitals are often badly managed, unhygienic and run by trade unions that can hardly be said to have the best interests of patients at heart, Motsoaledi has largely escaped the wrath of critics.
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