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Dr Aaron Motsoaledi

Posted inHealth, News/Politics

Doing panga surgery with the National Health Act

William Saunderson-Meyer by William Saunderson-Meyer 8 June 20149 June 2014

Legislators are like tik addicts. They’re convinced that after just one more hit they’ll find Nirvana. But the law, especially when cack-handedly drafted, is an imperfect instrument for changing society. It’s like using a panga for plastic surgery: the results are likely to please neither practitioner nor patient. Filled as it is with a righteous […]

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