LEGAL SHOWDOWN Prescription for victory: Board of Healthcare Funders to appeal against judgment in favour of Council for Medical Schemes 3 min 0 By Lisakanya Venna
CIVIL SOCIETY WATCH — 31-5 MARCH This week — Africa Children’s Summit, Children and Climate Change Lecture, Young Farmers’ Indaba 4 min 0 By Lerato Mutsila
BUSINESS REFLECTION After the Bell: Now for the good news — crime is less ridiculously high 4 min 0 By Tim Cohen
STARK DISPARITIES Decades of neglect: Oral health crisis demands urgent policy reform and action 5 min 0 By Sudeshni Naidoo and Habib Benzian
BUDGET 2025 WEBINAR Unpacking South Africa’s 2025 budget speech — challenges, dynamics and implications 5 min 1 By Lisakanya Venna
SPOTLIGHT Will new healthcare tariff framework finally tame South Africa’s rising medical costs? 8 min 1 By Chris Bateman for Spotlight
BHEKISISA Is tax alone enough to pay for NHI? We looked at the funding options — here are our sums 7 min 1 By Linda Pretorius and Jacques Verryn
REFORM MEASURES Ministers unveil interim fix for private healthcare pricing crisis 4 min 0 By Yeshiel Panchia
SPOTLIGHT InsideTheBox: Essential medicines — balancing cost, effectiveness and access in healthcare systems 5 min 0 By Dr Andy Gray for Spotlight
BHEKISISA Empowering health: the vital role of nomakhayas in South Africa's path to universal coverage 6 min 0 By Sigrid Kite-Banks
SPOTLIGHT 2025 healthcare dilemmas: Will South Africa embrace NHI reforms amid worker shortage challenges? 5 min 1 By Marcus Low
BOOZE LEVY OP-ED Government’s review of alcohol taxes a good start to help save public health system 5 min 4 By Russell Rensburg and Kenneth Jacobs
SPOTLIGHT OP-ED NHI offers an opportunity to boost primary healthcare — we must seize it 6 min 12 By Russell Rensburg for Spotlight
FINDING COMMON GROUND Mashatile's GNU clearing-house meeting aims to resolve policy disputes 4 min 9 By Victoria O’Regan
SPOTLIGHT OP-ED NHI Act offers no answer to high medicine prices — Covid-19 holds lessons for health equity 8 min 0 By Fatima Hassan
SPOTLIGHT #InTheSpotlight — how will NHI unfold? Here are three possible scenarios 9 min 1 By Jesse Copelyn for Spotlight
SPOTLIGHT Virchow Prize winner Lucy Gilson on NHI — ‘service delivery requires people, not just money’ 7 min 1 By Biénne Huisman for Spotlight
BUSINESS REFLECTION After the Bell: NHI impasse could hobble second leg of business-government reform partnership 4 min 4 By Ray Mahlaka
SPOTLIGHT ANALYSIS Mandatory health insurance for SA is an ‘upgrade’ on NHI, proponents say 8 min 18 By Chris Bateman for Spotlight
MEDICAL INTERVENTION OP-ED Consensus, common purpose and unified commitment to SA healthcare reform urgently needed 6 min 10 By Brian Currin, Mark Heywood, Tracey Naledi, Krish Vallabhjee and Atiya Mosam
