·18 May 2026
The Constitutional Court of South Africa has axed Sections 36 to 40 of the National Health Act, declaring them unconstitutional.
The sections in question deal with the government’s “Certificate of Need”, which is a licensing system for healthcare providers in the country.
At its core, the certificate acted as a mandate for where healthcare facilities and healthcare providers could operate or expand.
It advanced the state’s aim of ensuring “equitable distribution” of…
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Fun South African Fact: Vilakazi Street in Soweto has been home to two Nobel Peace Prize winners. A tour through Soweto will always stop at Vilakazi Street to reveal a number of heritage sites of great importance to democratic South Africa. Both Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu lived here at some point in their lives. In 1984, Archbishop Desmond Tutu received the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition for his non-violent fight against the apartheid regime. Nine years later in 1993, Nelson Mandela shared the Nobel Peace Prize with then-president F.W. de Klerk as an award for their role in bringing about the peaceful end of apartheid. Nelson Mandela then went on to become South Africa’s first democratically elected president in 1994.
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