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Medical schemes versus health insurance: What is the difference and why you should care
This brief aims to explain the key differences between medical schemes and health insurance and why demarcation between the two is important. Medical schemes, ...
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Mental Health I - Legal and policy framework
Part 1 explores the present legal instruments designed to ensure that all those who require it will have access to mental health care. The brief further ...
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Mental Health II - National Health Insurance
Part 2 will consider the content of the National Health Insurance Bill as well as possible implications that it may have on the state of mental health care.
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Metrorail
This brief is the third in a series of six on urban transport. The first two briefs presented statistical material which delineates key current features of ...
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Migration I: Public opinion versus reality on immigrants in South Africa
This brief reviews immigrants’ net economic contribution, and crime statistics. The OECD estimates that immigrants contribute between 8.9% and 9.1% of national ...
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Migration II: The South African migration policy landscape
South African migration has been dictated by an increasingly restrictive policy trajectory that positions migrants as criminal and undeserving.
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Migration III: Interpreting the data on South African migration
There is a pressing need for more comprehensive and conclusive data on migration, to counteract uninformed xenophobic sentiment and to make migration policy ...
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Migration IV: The state of South Africa’s borders
South Africa’s borders require serious attention to counter irregular migration, illicit trade and incumbered movement. The Department of Home Affairs’ ...
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Migration V: Policy recommendations for the South African migration regime
This final brief offers a set of problem statements and policy recommendations for the Department of Home Affairs and the South African Government.
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Minibus Taxis
This brief is the fifth in a series of six on urban transport and discusses minibus taxis. The first two briefs present statistical material which delineates ...
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