The Citizen reported on 6 March that the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital and Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital experienced gas supply interruptions from Egoli Gas due to unpaid bills of R15m.
Meanwhile the Hospital Association of SA (HASA) has also asked the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) to declare the NHI Act unconstitutional and unlawful and to set it aside, reported MedicalBrief (6 March 2025)
Judge Mpostoli Twala at the Gauteng High Court must decide whether the court has jurisdiction to consider arguments for and against the constitutionality of the NHI Bill, reported News24 (6 March 2025)
On 4 March paediatric surgeon, Peter Beale, was found not guilty in the Johannesburg High Court for the murder of three children and two counts of fraud, reported, EWN (5 March 2025) Beale operated on the children, aged three, twenty-one months and ten in 2012, 2016 and 2019, respectively. “A six-year court battle which divided the medical fraternity has finally come to an end.”