Boitumelo Semete-Makokotlela leads the country’s medicines regulator, the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority, a public entity few people knew about until the pandemic hit. Covid triggered a scramble for vaccines, tests and treatments that needed to be approved. Things often go.
Boitumelo Semete-Makokotlela leads the country’s medicines regulator, the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra), a public entity few people knew about until the COVID-19 pandemic hit. COVID triggered a noisy scramble for vaccines, tests and treatments that needed to be approved often embroiled in politics.
Boitumelo Semete-Makokotlela, CEO of Sahpra, chats to Bhekisisa about how she weathered the Covid storm and why her colleagues were unsurprised by her resolve.