SECTION27

We’re excited to welcome our new Candidate Attorneys, Gauta Mashego and Jonathan West, to SECTION27!

ICYMI | South Africa was one of only two countries to meet its fair share target for #TB research financing in 2023 –  the other country was India. https://lnkd.in/dPJRnMy5

𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫! 🎆 This year, we continue to fight for access to education and healthcare and advocating for justice and equality for all. ICYMI, we released our 2024 Year in Review. Check out the work we did last year here: https://lnkd.in/du3rJ-b4

On December 13, 2024, the Constitutional Court issued an interim order in Blind SA v President of South Africa, temporarily amending the Copyright Act to support blind and visually impaired individuals. FULL STATEMENT: https://lnkd.in/dYXQXqtX #constitutionalcourt #blindsa

WATCH 🎥| Support SECTION27 and help us fight for health, education, and human rights for all. Your contribution can make a difference. Donate using the link below or in the QR code at the end of the video. https://lnkd.in/dpv3krct

This was the Sunday Times front page on 15 December 2024! Yes indeed - the R250m had to be returned to Gauteng Treasury as unspent. This then also became part of a bigger amount of R1.5 Billion that was unspent by this Department for Health Services. The tragedy is that they could have asked for the money to be rolled over. It is very concerning to read about the misinformation in this media report - the figures mentions for radiation treatment care in the private sector may be correct - what is however not portrayed is that existing outsourcing prices for radiation therapy is already in place for the public sector. It was the GDOH officials that were not willing to engage on these matters and repeatedly delayed processes to the extent that every one started believing this as a complex tender. Even for outsourcing there was best practice models from COVID19 already in place. GDOH even had the opportunity to listen to a 3 hour presentation on the how and the what to implement such. They chose to ignore all of that. They chose to misinform the the court and the public. Now the same patients that have been waiting for so many years again have to wait to hear whether they will indeed be treated with the current Service Level Agreements (SLA) that have been signed. And we do not even know whether any of these SLAs will continue after the end of the financial year. Planning for Radiation under the Siemens contract had to be halted due to some technical problems - no one speaks about that. NO the Cancer Alliance (South Africa) does not want to manage the GDOH - together with SECTION27 we only want to make sure that the Constitutional Rights of cancer patients are adhered to. It is a shame that they cannot even understand that basic principle! A luta Continua 👊🏽

This year, we continued our efforts to address access to quality healthcare and education and focused on structural barriers that impacted the realisation to these rights. Read more in our Year in Review: https://lnkd.in/du3rJ-b4

SPOTLIGHT | A Pretoria pharmaceutical company is planning to break new ground by making the active ingredients for two important TB medicines. https://lnkd.in/d7NufKF5

𝐔𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐄 Please note that our Advice Office will be closed until 6 January 2025. You can reach the Office on 060 754 0751 (Also available on WhatsApp)