GUGU LOURIE: NHI scheme is state capture 2.0 disguised as health-care reform

National Health Insurance is designed to enrich the ANC’s network while leaving ordinary South Africans with nowhere to go for decent health care

22 June 2025 – 09:29

by GUGU LOURIE

The National Health Insurance (NHI) plan is not a lifeline for South Africa’s broken health care system. It is a carefully engineered ploy to centralise control of more than R1-trillion, ostensibly for universal health care.

South Africans are expected to trust the process led by a government incapable of managing a post office, let alone an entire nation’s compulsory health insurance. This is not progress; this is state capture 2.0, and it will dwarf the Eskom disaster in both scale and devastation…

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