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South Africa\u2019s failing systems are now hitting ordinary people where it hurts. They are leaving young people without medical cover, delaying justice in the country\u2019s highest court, threatening the independence of private healthcare professionals ,and plunging Johannesburg residents into an electricity crisis rooted in billions of rands of losses and years of mismanagement.<\/p>\n
The top interviews of the week on Moneyweb@Midday revealed a country in which weak governance, overstretched institutions and rising economic pressure are increasingly colliding with the daily lives of ordinary citizens.<\/p>\n
The warning on healthcare affordability came from Luyanda Njilo, senior equity research analyst for Healthcare at Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking, who argued that South Africa\u2019s youth unemployment crisis is now feeding directly into the medical aid system. Younger people, either without work or unable to absorb relentless premium increases, are not joining schemes or are dropping out.<\/p>\n
That matters because medical schemes rely on younger, healthier members to balance the cost of older and more medically demanding beneficiaries. As the pool becomes older and more expensive, contributions rise further, pushing even more people out and creating a damaging affordability spiral.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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The strain is not limited to healthcare funding. Chris Oxtoby, research consultant at Freedom Under Law, warned that the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) is facing what he described as a crisis of sorts, with rising caseloads and increasingly delayed judgments threatening trust in the country\u2019s highest court.<\/p>\n
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Freedom Under Law\u2019s research shows that the court has shifted from a specialist constitutional institution into a far broader court of final appeal, without receiving the additional capacity needed to manage that expanded role.<\/p>\n
Applications have more than tripled to over 400 a year, while litigants are waiting longer for decisions in matters that often carry profound political, commercial, and constitutional consequences.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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The Constitutional Court was also central to another major discussion, this time over the limits of state power in healthcare. Professor Alex van den Heever of the Wits School of Governance welcomed the court\u2019s decision to strike down provisions of the National Health Act that would have required private hospitals, clinics, and health professionals to obtain government-issued certificates before operating.<\/p>\n
He argued that the system would have concentrated excessive and largely unchecked authority at national level. The court found that the scheme was not rationally connected to improving access to healthcare and placed unjustifiable limits on people choosing and practising their professions.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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In Johannesburg, the week\u2019s most immediate warning came from Julius Kleynhans, executive manager for local government from the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa), who described the electricity crisis as evidence of governance collapse.<\/p>\n
With City Power accused of suffering electricity losses of around R21 billion and owing Eskom more than R5.2 billion, Kleynhans rejected the suggestion that the problem rests with residents who do not pay.<\/p>\n
He said the deeper failure lies in a grid that has not been properly maintained and a municipal electricity system in which sound financial management has been absent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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