Unpaid doctors, food shortages rock Gauteng public hospitals

Salary crisis is latest in a string of controversies plaguing province's dysfunctional health department

11 May 2025 - 00:00 By Isaac Mahlangu, Gugulethu Mashinini and Mmatumelo Lebjane

After putting in an exhausting month’s work saving lives and clocking up 80 hours of overtime, a doctor at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in Soweto was left with nothing but an empty bank account to show for it...

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