At first glance, Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko does not appear to have any knowledge of, or experience in, managing complex health systems, so her qualifications for the appointment are not clear.
The portfolio is being renamed “health and wellness” so as to put more emphasis on preventing disease and illness: “we are very worried people only arrive at hospital when they are very sick”.
One of the reasons for appointing Nkomo-Ralehoko, Lesufi said, was that as the former MEC of finance she would be able to tackle issues such as poor financial management and the overpricing of goods. “We are going to buy medicine on our own directly. We don’t want to buy medicine via a third party who will go to China and bring it back.
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