Medical aid schemes, medical insurance and the low-cost benefit option I – Current status

Part 1 in this series explores the manner in which the Council for Medical Schemes has dealt with Low-Cost Benefit Options especially in light of the pending ...

Medical aid schemes, medical insurance and the low-cost benefit option II – Where we need to go

Part 2 in this series will look at the work done on the reform of prescribed minimum benefits and its implications for National Health Insurance.

Mental Health I - Legal and policy framework

Part 1 explores the present legal instruments designed to ensure that all those who require it will have access to mental health care. The brief further ...

Mental Health II - National Health Insurance

Part 2 will consider the content of the National Health Insurance Bill as well as possible implications that it may have on the state of mental health care.

Municipalities I: Evaluating executive authority in municipalities

This brief series explores three institutional arrangements that influence municipal functioning. Part I evaluates executive authority in municipalities; Part ...

Municipalities II: Assessing mechanisms of municipal oversight

This brief series explores three institutional arrangements that influence municipal functioning. Part I evaluates executive authority in municipalities; Part ...

Municipalities III: Assessing provincial intervention in local government. Are provinces doing too little or too much?

This brief series explores three institutional arrangements that influence municipal functioning. Part I evaluates executive authority in municipalities; Part ...

This Brief makes some observations on the Presidential Review Committee’s (PRC) Final Report on the State of South Africa’s State Owned Enterprises (SOEs).

Deepening Democracy Brief: Parliamentary Accountability

This brief discusses Parliament’s oversight duty (over, among others, organs of state) and Parliament’s accountability mechanism – the electorate. It briefly ...

Pharmaceuticals and South Africa I - Distribution

In the first Brief we consider the findings in the HSF’s enquiry into the structures regarding the pricing and distribution of pharmaceuticals in South Africa. ...