[TOP STORY] SA’s specialist crisis: Why junior doctors are taking unpaid roles

Loading player...
‘The budget spend is focusing on those interns and community service doctors, but not on specialists. So there's almost like a hesitancy or reluctance to spend on creating more specialists,’ says Dr Simon Fraser, Junior Doctors Association of South Africa.
27 Nov 2024 8AM English South Africa Business News · Politics

Other recent episodes

[TOP STORY]Energy costs, not exports, threaten SA’s chrome industry

‘China has built not only electricity generation capacity, but also ferrochrome production capacity. They've done it in a manner that actually has made their ferrochrome production much cheaper than ours, largely because of their electricity,’ says Mzila Mthenjane, CEO of the Minerals Council.
2 Dec 7AM 8 min

Cape Town tourism eyes 'One job per home'

Policy misfire or game-changer? The real impact of SA’s chrome tax. Kagiso Trust says G20 breakthrough must spark a new social contract. And a new report shows SA health and beauty shoppers shifting online as private brands outpace national labels.
2 Dec 4AM 32 min

[TOP STORY] Maimane pushes for 50% matric pass mark to lift standards

‘I think there is a groundswell of South Africans and certainly, in the debate in parliament we held, there were many political parties that were on this side of the argument rather than trying to defend the policy,’ says Build One South Africa leader, Mmusi Maimane.
1 Dec 9AM 8 min