LETTER: Retire the Nobel peace prize
If the Cuban Medical Brigade, for which SA paid millions, can be nominated, as it has been by the president, the prize has lost all meaning
04 February 2021 - 17:15
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s statement in his recent television address that the government would nominate the Henry Reeve International Contingent of Doctors, aka the Cuban Medical Brigade, for the Nobel peace prize was met with incredulity by many as they are being paid almost R400m for their services.
Gift of the Givers charges the government nothing, and there are hundreds of SA-registered nurses and doctors without jobs. The Cuban doctors received certification to practise within days, while top overseas specialists are frustrated with red tape for years...
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