SPOTLIGHT How medicine pricing works in SA and how it might change in future 8 min 0 By Dr Andy Gray for Spotlight
Rebecca Walker and Jo Vearey Peculiar bedfellows: When Health and Home Affairs turn care into control 5 min 0 16 February 2026
Murshid Obaray Profiting from sickness: Medical aid betrayal and the NHI gamble 6 min 5 11 February 2026
Awam Mavimbela ANC local government election manifestos and the rural health crisis — when service delivery failures become fatal 3 min 0 21 January 2026
ANALYSIS National Health Insurance — reports of a potential truce are greatly exaggerated 4 min 17 By Stephen Grootes
THE INTERVIEW Motsoaledi insists NHI will not be ‘captured’ amid corruption fears 5 min 21 By Nonkululeko Njilo and Suné Payne
NGC 2025 Ramaphosa will lead the 2026 ANC local government election campaign as plot rumours fizzle 4 min 6 By Ferial Haffajee
Olive Shisana Health inequality deepens as finance minister blocks tax credit shift central to NHI 4 min 5 27 November 2025
BHEKISISA Is the NHI channelling Operation Dudula’s healthcare blockades? 7 min 0 By Tanya Pampalone, Mia Malan, Anna-Maria van Niekerk, Jessica Pitchford and Thatego Mashabela
TAKING CARE The gig economy: Video doctors on the frontlines of the Uberisation of healthcare 5 min 2 By Lindsey Schutters
BHEKISISA OP-ED Tick-box consultations won’t save NHI, changing governance structures might 6 min 1 By Tim Tucker, Mina Haji, Susan Cleary and Geetesh Solanki
SYSTEMIC ILLNESS Maladministration, not foreigners, to blame for state of South African healthcare 4 min 0 By Yeshiel Panchia
CASUALTY WARD Doctors slam trade union as working conditions in health sector deteriorate 6 min 0 By Tamsin Metelerkamp
SPOTLIGHT OP-ED Controversy and cautious hope collide as Masechaba Sesing heads up Free State health department 9 min 0 By Ufrieda Ho for Spotlight
EXPLAINER On what grounds are the legal challenges against the contentious NHI Act being fought? 7 min 1 By Tamsin Metelerkamp
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
PUBLIC HEALTHCARE SA Medical Association to challenge ‘dangerously flawed’ NHI Act in high court 4 min 1 By Tamsin Metelerkamp
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
