HSF Briefs

Andrew Barlow looks at the UK's NHS - an internationally lauded and nationally loved single-payer universal health care system - and how the many issues its faces are relevant to the recent NHI White Paper and its proposals to implement a similar system here in South Africa.

An overview of the HSF's continued fight in securing adequate independence for the institutions charged with protecting the constitutional rights of South Africans and all those within her borders.

This Brief suggests methods that may be adopted in an effort get through the hard times ahead.

Discussions about issues relating to race are often marred by little awareness of some of the more important differences between different forms of race-related expression. The conflation of concepts tends to generate much unnecessary disagreement on important practical and policy-related issues. With this in mind, I try to do three things in this three-part brief. First, I distinguish three forms of race-related expression: hate-speech, racism and hatred. Second, I outline how the Constitution deals with efforts to regulate each form of expression. Third, I consider four hypothetical examples of race-related expression, for the sake of illustrating the conceptual framework outlined in Part I of this brief, and suggesting how each might be regulated in a manner that is consistent with the points made in Part II of this brief.

Anele Mtwesi looks at the current higher education funding crisis and government's inability to address the 'missing middle'.

This Brief looks at the issues at the Health Professions Council of South Africa as well as discusses the Minister of Health's Ministerial Task Team's Report.

This Brief discusses the Justice Administered Fund Bill