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South Africa's main opposition party, alongside a number of labour and business groups, have said they will take legal action against a bill aimed at providing universal health coverage. You can also listen to our podcasts: Africa Daily and Focus on Africa.
Earlier, we reported that South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was due to sign the contentious proposal into law on Wednesday. A reminder of Tuesday's wise words:
The National Health Insurance (NHI) bill seeks to give South Africans “of all races, rich or poor and legal long-term residents” access to quality healthcare. Its implementation would cost billions of dollars. A road cannot tell you that there is a misfortune ahead."
On Tuesday, the Democratic Alliance (DA) party leader said his party would challenge the Click here to send us your African proverbs.
law "all the way to the Constitutional Court". We leave you with this image of a man performing at the Shal el-Nessim spring festival in Ismailia, Egypt.
"Our legal team was briefed months ago already
and will file our legal challenge against this devastating
legislation without delay," John Steenhuisen added.
Elsewhere, trade union Solidariteit said it had warned Mr Ramaphosa that it would take legal action against the bill "within an hour" of it being signed on Wednesday.
The South African Health Professionals Collaboration
(SAHPC), which represents 25,000 healthcare workers in the
public and private sectors, is quoted by news agency Reuters as saying it was also exploring a legal
challenge.
According to the Reuters news agency, the group said the bill would "reverse, rather than
progress, equitable, quality healthcare in South Africa".
Supporters of the bill hail it as a generational change that will reverse
persistent inequality.
The South African Medical
Association Trade Union, which represents most public sector doctors, called it "a monumental shift towards achieving universal
health coverage and ensuring that every South African has access
to quality healthcare irrespective of their socio-economic
status".
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