Dear Editor
The DA welcomes the refusal of Business Unity South Africa (BUSA) and the South African Health Professionals Collaboration (SAHPC) to sign the second Presidential Health Compact.
This refusal by BUSA and the SAHPC – a national group of nine medical, dental, and allied healthcare practitioners’ associations representing more than 25 000 private and public healthcare workers – highlights the violation of the parliamentary public participation processes when it was used as a box-ticking exercise to push the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill through Parliament.
The original Health Compact, signed in 2019, was an agreement between government and various stakeholders, including health professionals, the business community, and labour unions to collaborate to improve South Africa’s health sector. The second Health Compact seems to take circumvent the good faith of the first by making the NHI Act – the very vehicle these stakeholders staunchly opposed – as the foundation of the agreement.
Like Health Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi’s roadshow, the new Health Compact seems to be nothing more than a ploy to coerce support for the NHI Act and silence opposition of a piece of legislation that will lead to the decimation of the health sectors.
Regards
Michele Clarke MP
DA Spokesperson on Health
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Gatvol – fed up / had enough [ghut-foll] Meaning ‘filled to the brim’ and is used to describe someone who is very angry or tired of the same thing happening over and over again.Example: “I’m gatvol with that nonsense.” / “I’m gatvol that they keep losing all the time.”
Darling Peacock
A South African, an Australian and an Englishman are all having a drink
The Englishman and South African both drink from Pint Glasses, the Australian from a bottle.
The South African, upon draining his glass, drops in back down on the bar, pulls out a pistol, and shoots the glass.
\”In South Africa, there is so much sand that I never drink from the same glass twice!\”
The Australian, having drained his bottle, sets it down upon the bar and, upon seizing the South African\’s pistol, shoots his bottle.
\”In Australia, there is so much booze that I never drink from the same brand twice!\”
The Englishman, likewise having drained his glass, sets his glass upon the table, seizes the pistol the pistol from the Australian, and shoots the South African and the Australian, quite dead.
\”In England, there are so many of you bastards that I never drink with the same two twice!\”