The exclusion of the implementation of National Health Insurance (NHI) from the medium-term development plan (MTDP) was significant, as it meant there could be no budget and implementation of the scheme for the next five years, DA leader John Steenhuisen said in an interview with journalists on Wednesday.

Steenhuisen addressed a gathering of DA MPs, ministers and the media on the DA’s achievements in the government and its view on the government of national unity (GNU). He said the DA had received an undertaking from the ANC that provisions in the NHI Act that would cause the termination of private medical schemes had been taken out of the plan...

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