LETTER: Government reinforces apartheid
NHI will have Verwoerd laughing
Amnesty International recently cast the spotlight on the dreadful outcomes of our educational system by placing a smiling Hendrik Verwoerd on its posters and website. Black Land First was deeply offended, but not it seems at the radical reinforcement of apartheid by our government.
First it built 3-million RDP houses for the very poor families (read Africans) in locations visible on the outskirts of virtually every town in the country. It now entrenches that by asking said families to register for health services in terms of the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill in those locations, to get them nowhere else...
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