Mark Heywood

The moral and legal issues that surround mass hunger should no longer be avoided in South Africa.…

The moral and legal issues that surround mass hunger should no longer be avoided in South Africa. Give us this day our daily bread. If only.

Most people from other African countries are not here because they want to be, but because their countries have been ruined by corrupt elites. Turning our anger on them instead of those elites is the …

Most people from other African countries are not here because they want to be, but because their countries have been ruined by corrupt elites.

The road to 27 April 1994, Freedom Day in South Africa, started on the dusty streets of Soweto on 16 June 1976. Had Hector Pieterson not been shot dead that morning he would be a relatively young 62 t…

The road to 27 April 1994, Freedom Day in South Africa, started on the dusty streets of Soweto on 16 June 1976.

Search Home Special Reports National Health Insurance Why South Africans can trust the Constitutional Court's NHI ruling — whichever...

In early May this year, South Africa’s Constitutional Court became the battleground for one of the most consequential disputes over health legislation since democracy. The issue before the court was not whether the National Health Insurance (NHI) Act, the government’s proposed road to universal access to healthcare, is a good idea. Rather, the judges were […]

The judges deciding the NHI case are part of a 30-year tradition of using evidence, constitutional principles and careful reasoning to resolve some of South Africa’s toughest health disputes, writes Mark Heywood.

Every Saturday morning, every week of the year (extreme weather, war or pandemics permitting), at 8am, in 22 countries (and rising) around the