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  1. @GrahamDowns I think there is a second perspective: This #NHI discussion is a big opportunity. Not necessarily in the way the #ANC would like it to be, quite the opposite:

    Now *all* eyes are on #ANC #corruption and #StateCapture in the #HealthSystem in #SouthAfrica.

    Before, private health care for those who could afford it was good, so the only ones who lost out big time were those limited to public health care - and those did not have a voice that was heard.

    This is changing now: Those with money and power outside the ANC wake up and start to care. And *also* those inside #COSATU and #ANC that are in #MedicalScheme|s and don't want to lose their quality care, no matter what they say publicly.

    At the same time, the current system is not fair, social or human - neither can it be that those who can afford it are paying horrendous amounts for private health profits nor that large parts of society do not get quality health care at all.

    I am not saying that the #NHI bill in the current form will work or is even more than a smoke screen, but I also think that we are seeing the beginning of a discourse and not the end of it.

    A discourse the ANC can not control in the way they thought they could. They might have opened Pandoras Box now...

    @royal @kaasbaas

  2. @GrahamDowns I think there is a second perspective: This #NHI discussion is a big opportunity. Not necessarily in the way the #ANC would like it to be, quite the opposite:

    Now *all* eyes are on #ANC #corruption and #StateCapture in the #HealthSystem in #SouthAfrica.

    Before, private health care for those who could afford it was good, so the only ones who lost out big time were those limited to public health care - and those did not have a voice that was heard.

    This is changing now: Those with money and power outside the ANC wake up and start to care. And *also* those inside #COSATU and #ANC that are in #MedicalScheme|s and don't want to lose their quality care, no matter what they say publicly.

    At the same time, the current system is not fair, social or human - neither can it be that those who can afford it are paying horrendous amounts for private health profits nor that large parts of society do not get quality health care at all.

    I am not saying that the #NHI bill in the current form will work or is even more than a smoke screen, but I also think that we are seeing the beginning of a discourse and not the end of it.

    A discourse the ANC can not control in the way they thought they could. They might have opened Pandoras Box now...

    @royal @kaasbaas

  3. @GrahamDowns I think there is a second perspective: This #NHI discussion is a big opportunity. Not necessarily in the way the #ANC would like it to be, quite the opposite:

    Now *all* eyes are on #ANC #corruption and #StateCapture in the #HealthSystem in #SouthAfrica.

    Before, private health care for those who could afford it was good, so the only ones who lost out big time were those limited to public health care - and those did not have a voice that was heard.

    This is changing now: Those with money and power outside the ANC wake up and start to care. And *also* those inside #COSATU and #ANC that are in #MedicalScheme|s and don't want to lose their quality care, no matter what they say publicly.

    At the same time, the current system is not fair, social or human - neither can it be that those who can afford it are paying horrendous amounts for private health profits nor that large parts of society do not get quality health care at all.

    I am not saying that the #NHI bill in the current form will work or is even more than a smoke screen, but I also think that we are seeing the beginning of a discourse and not the end of it.

    A discourse the ANC can not control in the way they thought they could. They might have opened Pandoras Box now...

    @royal @kaasbaas

  4. @GrahamDowns I think there is a second perspective: This #NHI discussion is a big opportunity. Not necessarily in the way the #ANC would like it to be, quite the opposite:

    Now *all* eyes are on #ANC #corruption and #StateCapture in the #HealthSystem in #SouthAfrica.

    Before, private health care for those who could afford it was good, so the only ones who lost out big time were those limited to public health care - and those did not have a voice that was heard.

    This is changing now: Those with money and power outside the ANC wake up and start to care. And *also* those inside #COSATU and #ANC that are in #MedicalScheme|s and don't want to lose their quality care, no matter what they say publicly.

    At the same time, the current system is not fair, social or human - neither can it be that those who can afford it are paying horrendous amounts for private health profits nor that large parts of society do not get quality health care at all.

    I am not saying that the #NHI bill in the current form will work or is even more than a smoke screen, but I also think that we are seeing the beginning of a discourse and not the end of it.

    A discourse the ANC can not control in the way they thought they could. They might have opened Pandoras Box now...

    @royal @kaasbaas

  5. @GrahamDowns I think there is a second perspective: This #NHI discussion is a big opportunity. Not necessarily in the way the #ANC would like it to be, quite the opposite:

    Now *all* eyes are on #ANC #corruption and #StateCapture in the #HealthSystem in #SouthAfrica.

    Before, private health care for those who could afford it was good, so the only ones who lost out big time were those limited to public health care - and those did not have a voice that was heard.

    This is changing now: Those with money and power outside the ANC wake up and start to care. And *also* those inside #COSATU and #ANC that are in #MedicalScheme|s and don't want to lose their quality care, no matter what they say publicly.

    At the same time, the current system is not fair, social or human - neither can it be that those who can afford it are paying horrendous amounts for private health profits nor that large parts of society do not get quality health care at all.

    I am not saying that the #NHI bill in the current form will work or is even more than a smoke screen, but I also think that we are seeing the beginning of a discourse and not the end of it.

    A discourse the ANC can not control in the way they thought they could. They might have opened Pandoras Box now...

    @royal @kaasbaas

  6. Cosatu is mobilising for a national strike on Thursday. ... Trade union federation Cosatu and its affiliates will strike on Thursday in protest ...
    Cosatu to strike this week over state of economy, government failures
  7. Cosatu is mobilising for a national strike on Thursday. ... Trade union federation Cosatu and its affiliates will strike on Thursday in protest ...
    Cosatu to strike this week over state of economy, government failures
  8. Strike action is provided for constitutionally and enabled by the Labour Relations Act. Employees have a right to withhold their labour and as a ...
    LETTER: Violence during strike is unlawful
  9. We are taking this moment to reflect on a general strike by industrial and ... After the 1972 dockworkers' strikes the General Factory Workers' ...
    The seeds of the 1973 Durban strikes still grow
  10. Members of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu), one of the largest unions of labour federation Cosatu, were set to down ...
    Public sector wage strike interdicted
  11. On Tuesday's so-called National Day of Action, hundreds of thousands of ... The Public Servants Association strike on 10 November 2022 in Durban.

    On Tuesday’s so-called National Day of Action, hundreds of thousands of South Africa’s public servants will either be on a go-slow or not go to work, affecting many government services — including at hospitals, schools, police stations and prisons.
    Bringing SA to a halt — 800,000 public servants set to go on wage strike
  12. When it’s Russia in 1917

    dailyfriend.co.za/2022/11/14/w

    (Terrence Corrigan on land reform and the South African Communist Party's Red October campaign.)

    #IRR #SouthAfrica #LandReform #SACP #Cosatu

  13. When it’s Russia in 1917

    dailyfriend.co.za/2022/11/14/w

    (Terrence Corrigan on land reform and the South African Communist Party's Red October campaign.)

    #IRR #SouthAfrica #LandReform #SACP #Cosatu