MOST CEOs have the first few months to settle in gradually. But not Sandile Mfenyana, CEO of Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Southern Africa’s largest hospital. The facility has regularly been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. If it’s not the generators failing to kick in after a power cut, it is patients left unattended or linen and food going missing…..more

Young family doctors from across South Africa spent a day at the Pre-Conference of the SA Academy of Family Physicians and formed the South African chapter of Afriwon – the organisation of young family doctors in Africa linked to Wonca Africa. There was palpable excitement as representatives of each university were elected to serve in the interim committee to set up the new organisation. Professor Jannie Hugo, Conference Convenor, appealed to young doctors to advocate for better health for the people of South Africa, and not just focus on narrow interests.