Editorial | Who is minister Motsoaledi fooling with his obsessions?
The fact is that the NHI Act was rammed through Parliament by the ANC as a election gimmick. Aaron Motsoaledi is a very obsessive man. And he obsesses over the wrong things.
When he moved to the department of home affairs, where he has been for the past five years, his obsession was ending the Zimbabwe exemption permit, the temporary permit in place for Zimbabwe’s economic refugees since 2010. Now that he is back in the health portfolio, Motsoaledi is obsessed again, but not over the crumbling public health infrastructure, medicine and staff shortages, overworked and demoralised personnel, extraordinarily long waits for essential medical procedures, and a myriad of other urgencies.
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