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Maternal and newborn complications are among the leading causes of death and disability in the developing world. Worldwide, an estimated 287,000 women die during pregnancy and childbirth each...
The advent of amendments to the Competition Act No. 89 of 1998 has, at least for one of those chapters, being chapter 4A dealing with market inquiries become a reality. Section 6 of the Competition...
It is an honour and privilege for me to address this important gathering.
We would like to applaud Minister Lindiwe Sisulu for the stewardship and the wisdom that went behind calling this summit,...
The National Department of Health (NDOH) has embarked on an initiative to improve and expand access to healthcare services through the contracting of private general medical practitioners (GPs) to...
Honourable Speaker, I consider myself honoured to be presenting this penultimate budget of our five-year term. In her State of the Province Address, the Honourable Premier enjoined us to embrace...
Welcome to everyone here today. Mr Speaker, this is the fourth time that I am standing before this house to table the budget of the Western Cape Government. In this, the last full year of our...
A recent decision by the Constitutional Court of South Africa in Lee v Minister of Correctional Services and Others case CCT 20/12 [2012] ZACC 30 ("the Lee decision") has shed further light on...
Recognising equal human rights for minority groups has been on the rise in the past several decades, especially following World War II when the United Nations (UN) adopted the Universal Declaration...
The two wards with 47 beds caters for children with different cancers from the age of zero to nineteen years. This unit provides professional healthcare services such as counseling, chemotherapy,...
The Gauteng Department of Health assures Leratong Hospital users that healthcare services are not disrupted following the shooting incident that took place this morning.
At about 5h30, a patient...
Worldwide, the issue of adequate access to healthcare services is a policy concern. This is especially the case for those living in rural areas of developing countries, who seem to have limited...
Currently there is litigation between a numbers of parties concerning the application of a patent in respect of a cancer medicine in South Africa. The parties concerned include Sanofi Aventis SA...
Please allow me, on behalf of the Government and the people of the Republic of South Africa, to welcome our esteemed international guests, in particular the Ministers from the African continent,...
One of the key decisions taken at WRC-12 was to allocate the frequency band 694-790 MHz to the mobile service. This frequency band is currently used by television broadcasters. It is ideally suited...
The Millennium Development Goals or MDGs were identified by the World Health Organisation in terms of the Millennium Declaration signed by 189 countries in 2000. In its publication concerning the...