War on the Wards: Unsolicited Policy Advice at the NHI Crossroads — Without Losing the Public Dr Sipho Kabane: SDK Health Leadership16 May 2026 I. The Battlefield Beneath the Court Case South Africa’s healthcare debate is frequently framed as a confrontation between reform and resistance, or between transformation and privilege. Such framings are politically convenient, but analytically insufficient. The deeper conflict is between two competing anxieties that now coexist wit

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