On Mandela Day last year, we set out to raise enough funds to enable the Smile Foundation to perform 30 life-changing Smile Week surgeries at a cost of R750,000.
Johan Theron, who has been in the prison management system for 44 years, was yesterday exposed as the man who had completely lost control of the shambolic Mangaung jail, from which murderer and rapist Thabo Bester escaped last year.
‘Where are the doctors?’ we asked. One of the women shrugged, waving at the large numbers of Nehawu protesters in the hospital parking lot by way of explanation. Nothing more was said, and we were asked to leave.
Clinical teams are being targeted by sjambok-wielding protesters to stop all care, and health workers are sending SOS messages while trying to work in insurmountable conditions, as the countrywide Nehawu wage strike enters its second day. Clinical teams are being targeted by sjambok-wielding pr.
An EFF Member of the National Assembly, Sophie Thembekwayo, asked the Minister of Health, Joe Phaahla, to give the number of backlogs on surgeries per province and the steps each province will take.