Delays in repairing Charlotte Maxeke are a symptom of serious malaise in government
The way the situation has been handled is particularly disgraceful given that the hospital is named after a great South African who spent much of her life fighting to make ours a better, more caring society
20 February 2022 - 00:01
The announcement this week that the project of repairing Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, damaged in a fire last April, has been handed over to the national department of health represents merely another chapter in a sorry tale of incompetence and corruption...
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