The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) condemns in the strongest possible terms the conduct of the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA), which has allowed itself to be weaponised by the apartheid Zionist lobby to persecute Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng — a United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health — for her principled stance against the genocide being committed by Israel in Palestine.
In its letter dated 16 October 2025, the HPCSA confirmed that its First Medical and Dental Committee of Preliminary Inquiry had resolved and found Dr. Mofokeng guilty of “unprofessional conduct” under Regulation 4(9) of the Regulations Relating to Inquiries into Alleged Unprofessional Conduct, and imposed a R10,000 fine for “bringing the profession into disrepute” through “inappropriate language on social media”.
This decision is baseless, politically motivated, and represents a dangerous precedent for professional regulation in South Africa. The HPCSA’s statutory mandate, under the Health Professions Act 56 of 1974, is to protect the public and guide the medical professions in matters of ethical practice and patient care. It is not an instrument for policing political expression or punishing doctors for exercising their constitutional rights to freedom of conscience, belief, and expression.
Dr. Mofokeng’s social media posts did not threaten patients, violate medical ethics, or compromise her clinical responsibilities. The complaint itself relied on conjecture and ideological bias rather than any evidence of professional misconduct. The persecution of Dr. Mofokeng is therefore political, not substantive, a weaponisation of regulatory processes to silence an activist and a professional who dared to speak against apartheid Israel’s war crimes and genocide.
As a UN Special Rapporteur, Dr. Mofokeng is entitled to privileges and immunities to allow her to perform her functions independently and without intimidation, in terms of Article VI, Section 22 of the 1946 Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, which protects UN experts from any legal or administrative interference for acts performed in their official capacity. Any action by a global or domestic institution that seeks to penalise her for her official opinions or statements constitutes a breach of international law.
The EFF wishes to remind the United Nations of their responsibility to protect human rights defenders and that their inactions could be enabling continued harassment, intimidation, defamation and abuse of those UN independent experts who have shown resilience and leadership in a time when multilateral processes didn’t not prevent nor to stop the genocide.
South Africa’s democratic institutions must remain vigilant against Zionist infiltration and manipulation. Allowing professional regulators to become extensions of foreign political lobbies undermines the integrity of our democracy, our constitutional rights, and our historic solidarity with the oppressed people of Palestine.
The EFF stands unequivocally with Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health and all activists across the world who face harassment for defending justice, truth, and humanity. We reaffirm our solidarity with the Palestinian struggle, we demand an end to the illegal occupation and reject the cowardice of institutions that bow to apartheid Zionism. If the HPCSA chooses to allow itself to be weaponised, it will lose the public trust essential to its mandate.
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