The Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) warned that unregistered practitioners are putting lives at risk as new cases of ‘bogus doctors’ continue to surface, reported Spotlight (10 February 2026)
Following several claims of overcrowding and poor patient conditions in Gauteng hospitals, Health MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko reacted that there is no overcrowding crisis because she has not personally seen patients sleeping on floors. – TimesLive (10 Feb 2-26)
Despite reports that an SIU lifestyle audit linked Lesiba Malotana, former Gauteng Health Head of Department, to around R1.6m connected to alleged looting at Tembisa Hospital, Health MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko called her “the best the department has ever had” – Sunday Times 98 Feb 2026)
SA’s healthcare funding model could squeeze household affordability, destabilise parts of the private sector and push more patients into a public system already under strain, wrote Luyanda Njilo, senior research analyst at Nedbank Corporate & Investment Banking in Business Day (6 Feb 2026).