The Cuban health-care team that arrived in SA at the weekend to help combat Covid-19 is set to cost the taxpayer hundreds of millions of rand, it emerged on Tuesday.

The Cuban "medical brigade" was sent to SA after a request by President Cyril Ramaphosa to his Cuban counterpart, Miguel Díaz-Canel, marking another step in the more than 20 years of medical diplomacy between the two countries...

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