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Video interview: New mutual insurer enters the market

Key regulatory and compliance developments: looking back at 2024 and what’s ahead in 2025

Video Interview: Should the two-pot system result in new investment strategies?

ANC and its ministers reject reports of NHI ‘concessions’

Recent media reports over the future of NHI have been contradictory and hard to make sense of. Spotlight chased up those in a position to know where things stand – it seems the ANC has not made any major concessions on NHI. There is, however, agreement that medical schemes won’t be phased out in the next few years, something that likely wouldn’t have happened in any case given the poor state of the economy and the long timeline for NHI implementation.

Private hospitals push back on NHI legislation

The Hospital Association of South Africa joins other organisations in challenging the NHI Act in court but keeps the door open for dialogue with the government.

Ramaphosa calls on private sector to end appointments of Bain and McKinsey

The Presidency is not happy with McKinsey’s appointment as a supporting partner to the B20 or Bain’s running the Energy Council’s project management office.

Another organisation says it won’t sign the Presidential Health Compact

The South African Health Professionals Collaboration says the document is biased towards solidifying support for NHI.

Organisations won’t sign Presidential Health Compact because it endorses NHI Act

Business Unity South Africa and the South African Medical Association are unhappy about references to NHI in the document.

Teething problems for NHI in South Africa

An article in Businesstech quotes the Free Market Foundation as saying that South Africa will need to make serious tax changes to be able to afford its proposed National Health Insurance (NHI). Funding […]