I recently appealed to Dr Munyadziwa Kwinda, a sympathetic staffer working at the Health Professionals Council of SA (HPCSA), to assist a Dr Ken Jenkins with his longstanding registration problems. Originally from Zimbabwe, Dr Jenkins first applied for HPCSA registration to practice medicine in SA in 2010. He was given the runaround for years, but one Yvette Meintjies finally told him what was required. On April 2 2014 Meintjies relayed that "the subcommittee for internship training approved the training you completed abroad and resolved that you may be registered …". A memorandum in this regard was forwarded to the registration department on January 14 2014. Dr Jenkins was asked to pay for the 2014 registration, which he did. He paid registration again in 2015 and 2016. With great embarrassment, Dr Kwinda responded to my petition on February 6 2017, saying: "I have done everything possible to locate the stage at which Dr Jenkins’ application is at. Unfortunately, we cannot find any...
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