The introduction of National Health Insurance (NHI) is just another way of misusing our hard-earned taxes. The national department of health is far from being ready to handle NHI.

Its management has failed to find a building for its employees from 2018  to date, so how can it possibly manage NHI? Health services are failing dismally in public hospitals — you have to know somebody to get proper assistance. If they were any good former president Jacob Zuma would have no reason to go to Cuba for treatment...

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