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The following new briefs are available:

• Accountability by Wim Louw (Includes insights from our Roundtable on Accountability)
• Hunting for Healthcare: In pusuit of the NHI White Paper by Kate Francis
• Business Licensing Bill pt. II by Eythan Morris
• Service Delivery: What does the Constitutional Court say? by Kameel Premhid

The following new briefs are available:

• Business Licencing Bill by Eythan Morris
• POSIB: President urged to act by Kameel Premhid
• HSF back in court over Hawks Amendments by Kameel Premhid

It is not for me to comment on the recent spat between the DA and the ANC regarding the use of the photograph of Nelson Mandela and Helen Suzman. The Foundation holds no copyright over this photograph. However, as the Director of the Foundation that bears her name, I wish to respond to aspects of the recent, ill judged statements by the ANC’s parliamentary spokesperson, Mr Moloto Mothapo, that were published by the Mail & Guardian (April 26 to May 2, 2013: p.34). Mr Mothapo seeks to undermine the important role Helen Suzman played in the struggle against Apartheid.  In this response, I cannot correct all of his inaccuracies, half-truths and misrepresentations. However, I must respond to the claim that, by her participation in Parliament, Helen Suzman somehow served to “legitimise an unjust order”, and even “made her complicit in the horrors unleashed against the majority, and made her role morally indefensible”.  These charges are a grotesque distortion of the truth.

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25 April

The third batch of HSF Briefs are available:

• Sexual offences in South Africa By Wim Louw
• The Right to Basic Education By Anele Mtwesi
• Electoral Reform - What Political Parties Have To Say By Ashleigh Fraser
• Social Security and Opportunity: Growing the Economic Cake By Andre Dumon

22 April

This brief by Wim Louw and Kameel Premhid raises issues around the JSC methodology

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As part of our mandate to facilitate and stimulate dialogue on matters relating to our liberal constitutional democracy, the Helen Suzman Foundation has embarked on a project to research and publish a series of Briefs

The second batch of HSF Briefs are available:

• Inclusive Growth: The answer to our inequality prayers? By Eythan Morris
• Public Interest Litigation Threatened by the Legal Practice Bill By Kameel Premhid
• Medical Schemes versus Health Insurance: What is the difference and why you should care By Kate Francis

The Council for Medical Schemes approached a wide range of stakeholders to write articles on different aspects of the National Health Insurance. The HSF's Kate Francis wrote an article on the NHI Green Paper which is featured on page 24 and 25.

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Welcome to the first 2013 issue of Focus, devoted to education and organised along the themes of Overcoming and Innovation. This issue of Focus is an attempt to broaden and deepen the education debate, moving beyond our stagnant litany of educational woes. It includes personal perspectives, as well as expert opinions, because education should be understood as much through the lived experience of learners and families as through policies and theories. There is an emphasis on the Arts, an increasingly neglected weapon in our armoury against both ignorance and exclusion.

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The Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) would like to add its voice to the deliberations of the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) regarding Guideline Tariffs for Medical Practitioners and Dentists.

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