The provincial health department has come under fire from the EFF in Buffalo City Metro after a Mdantsane resident died during a five-hour wait for an ambulance.
Defence minister Thandi Modise has deployed 2,800 military personnel until March 30 to assist at public hospitals after the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union strike.
Discharged from Livingstone Hospital despite angry opposition from his daughter, and though he had been vomiting up blood, Kevin Anderson died at home just a few hours later.
The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) has suspended its public sector strike after reaching a settlement agreement with government at the bargaining council on Wednesday.