KATHARINE CHILD: Amid plans to use medical aid money to finance vaccines for SA, has anyone asked the members?
Many South Africans would gladly pay for inoculations to stop the mounting death toll and revive the economy. But a structure must be found that passes legal muster for schemes to be able to sponsor the immunisation of people who do not pay for cover, and the companies are by law obliged to speak to the trustees, who speak on members’ behalf
05 February 2021 - 08:00
There is a bizarre voyeurism and unusual public interest in how self-made billionaires spend money. When Discovery boss Adrian Gore bought an apartment in Central Park, New York, for R103m a few years back, it made Sunday newspaper headlines.
Surely it’s no-one’s business but his own how a man who built a business behemoth spends his fortune?..
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