Migrants in South Africa have access to healthcare: why it's kicking up a storm

By Kudakwashe Vanyoro, Postdoctoral Researcher at the African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand

A political storm has erupted in South Africa after a video went viral showing the health minister for the Limpopo province – which borders Zimbabwe – berating a Zimbabwean woman who was seeking healthcare. Responses have been divided. Some have called for Phophi Ramathuba to step down on the grounds that verbally abusing a patient was out of order. Others have supported her, saying…

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