The work of Dr Ephraim Kgoete demands attention.
SOUTH Africans of today have become accustomed to endless waiting — for almost everything. Waiting has become less of an inconvenience and more of a condition of life.
Jobs, healthcare, housing, and opportunity are all suspended in systems that are overstretched and wholly inaccessible. Nowhere is this starker than in healthcare, where inequality determines not only quality of care but also the time it takes to receive it. And in that waiting, people are not just losing time; they are losing years of their lives.
Healthcare in South Africa has been overwhelmingly defined by delays — often measured not merely in days or months, but in years of discomfort, anxiety, deteriorating health, and diminished dignity.
For millions of South Africans, healthcare remains a daily reminder of rampant inequality, even decades into our democracy. Public hospitals and clinics carry enormous burdens, healthcare workers operate under immense pressure, and patients are often forced to grapple with systems that treat them as wholly disposable.
