SPOTLIGHT: Healthcare and corruption – questions for a post-election health minister By Marcus Low
Elsewhere, MECs for health who are clearly out of their depth, such as Phophi Ramathuba in Limpopo, have made it back on to their provincial lists and seem set to continue in their roles — as are various heads of health departments, such as David Motau, the HOD on whose watch theMuch as one might hope the new dawn will reach down to provinces, there is only limited evidence of that happening so far.
To further complicate the picture, South Africa is not only going into an election, but also into a period of major health reforms in the form of National Health Insurance — the implementation of which should accelerate under the next administration. Similarly, on NHI he is broadly in the right and clearly committed to progressive reforms, but whether he is the right person to oversee the actual implementation of NHI is another question.
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