# summary

- Link: https://dearsouthafrica.co.za/nhi-regulations-2025/summary/
- Published: 2025-04-24T15:17:02+02:00
- Author: dearSA

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[AdHoc advisory panel](https://dearsouthafrica.co.za/nhi-regulations-2025/summary/#1738150189952-44103674-e29d7a61-abc3)

[The Board of the fund](https://dearsouthafrica.co.za/nhi-regulations-2025/summary/#1738150189975-5d0623dc-47dc7a61-abc3)

[Advisory Committees](https://dearsouthafrica.co.za/nhi-regulations-2025/summary/#1738150854013-bb98f5fb-7d097a61-abc3)

Public comments as delivered to the Minister

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Government notice

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Proposed governance regulations

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NHI Act 2024

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### In the News

    - BusinessTech — [NHI another step closer to reality](https://businesstech.co.za/news/government/815976/nhi-another-step-closer-to-reality/)
    - The Citizen — [NHI regulations ‘prematurely’ published with legislation not proclaimed yet](https://www.citizen.co.za/business/nhi-regulations-published-in-terms-of-legislation-not-proclaimed-yet/)
    - Polity — [New NHI draft regulations prove once more how unfeasible the intended system is for SA](https://www.polity.org.za/article/new-nhi-draft-regulations-prove-once-more-how-unfeasible-the-intended-system-is-for-sa-2025-03-10)
    - Juta Medical Brief — [Minister under fire over first draft NHI regulations](https://www.medicalbrief.co.za/minister-under-fire-over-first-draft-nhi-regulations/)
    - iAfrica — [Health Minister Pushes NHI Regulations Forward Amid Mounting Legal Hurdles](https://iafrica.com/health-minister-pushes-nhi-regulations-forward-amid-mounting-legal-hurdles/)
    - CityWire — [Health minister sets out NHI governance regulations](https://citywire.com/za/news/health-minister-sets-out-nhi-governance-regulations/a2461239)
    - BusinessDay — [First draft rules for NHI Act condemned by critics](https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/health/2025-03-10-first-draft-rules-for-nhi-act-condemned-by-critics/)
    - PoliticsWeb — [DA makes submissions on regulations for NHI Board appointments](https://www.politicsweb.co.za/politics/submissions-made-on-regulations-for-nhi-board-appo)
    - Mossel Bay Advertiser — [New NHI regulations raise more questions than answers](https://www.mosselbayadvertiser.com/News/Article/National-News/new-nhi-regulations-raise-more-questions-than-answers-202503110251)
    - SA Legal Academy — [NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE ACT: DRAFT FUND GOVERNANCE REGULATIONS OUT FOR COMMENT](https://legalacademy.co.za/news/read/national-health-insurance-act-draft-fund-governance-regulations-out-for-comment)
    - Moonstone — [Health Minister publishes draft regulations for NHI Fund governance](https://www.moonstone.co.za/health-minister-publishes-draft-regulations-for-nhi-fund-governance/)
    - Department of Health — [National Health Insurance](https://www.health.gov.za/nhi/)

**Radio 702** Stephen Grootes discusses the National Health Insurance Bill with 
Thoneshan Naidoo, CEO of the Health Funders Association, exploring its implications
for private healthcare and the challenges of implementing universal healthcare.

**SABC News** President Cyril Ramaphosa signed into law the National Health Insurance
Act however a central issue is the future role of private healthcare and medical
schemes once the NHI is implemented. Today we will explain and verify some of the
facts about role of Medical Aid when NHI is implemented.

**GNU: DA addresses Expropriation Act and NHI** DA Federal Leader John Steenhuisen
MP on the implications of the Expropriation Act and the ANC’s push for National 
Health Insurance (NHI), examining how these developments threaten the unity of the
National Government Coalition (GNU).

**SABC News** NHI Bill | Panel discussion on how it will work and who will fund 
it

**NHI: Doctors dump SA | Carte Blanche | M-Net** There’s a growing crisis in our
health system. Doctors and other medical professionals are leaving the country in
their hundreds. The reasons are varied and all too familiar: better pay and working
conditions abroad, safety, and political stability. But increasingly, doctors are
being driven away by government’s plan to introduce the National Health Insurance(
NHI), a scheme many say is simply unworkable. In this story, we visit Ireland, a
favoured destination for our departing doctors, and a country – despite being relatively
wealthy – grappling with its own public health issues.

**Expresso Show** The National Health Insurance NHI Bill explained

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### Freedom of Religion SA (FOR SA)

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### I strongly oppose the Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill [B9B – 2018], which I believe to be unconstitutional and unnecessary, for the following reasons:

 1. The Bill violates our constitutional rights as religious persons to express our
    religious beliefs without fear of punishment or persecution (section 15, read with
    section 16). Increasingly, around the world but also in South Africa, various holy
    scriptures (particularly on contentious issues) are regarded as “politically incorrect”
    or “offensive”, allegedly causing emotional and/or social harm.
 2. I specifically oppose the Bill’s:
 3.  a. wide definition of “harm” (in Clause 1);
     b. the failure to define “hatred” (in Clause 1); and
     c. definition of, and creation of, the crime of “hate speech” (in Clause 4).
 4. The creation of the crime of “hate speech” for saying / distributing something 
    which could possibly be construed as “harmful”, will have certain unintended consequences,
    namely the criminalisation of good / well-meaning people who will be prosecuted
    for saying what they sincerely believe (according to their holy texts) and sent
    to jail.
 5. There are already sufficient existing laws dealing with “hate speech”.
 6. For all of the reasons given, I ask:
 7.  a. For the scrapping of the “hate speech” sections from the Bill altogether;
     b. Alternatively, should the “hate speech” provisions remain part of the Bill, we
        ask:
     c.  a. That “harm” be defined as: “gross emotional and psychological detriment that 
            objectively and severely undermines the human dignity of the targeted group”;
            and
         b. That “hatred” be defined as: “strong and deeply-felt emotions of enmity, ill-
            will, detestation, malevolence and vilification against members of an identifiable
            group, that implies that members of that group are to be despised, scorned, denied
            respect and subjected to ill-treatment based on their group affiliation”.
     d. That Clause 4(2)(d) (the “religious exemption clause”) be strengthened as follows
        to protect:
         _“expression of any religious conviction, tenet, belief, teaching,
        doctrine or writings, by a religious organisation or an individual, in public 
        or in private, to the extent that such expression does not actively support, instigate,
        exhort, or call for extreme detestation, vilification, enmity, ill-will and malevolence
        that constitutes incitement to cause gross emotional and psychological harm that
        severely undermines the dignity of the targeted group, based on race, ethnicity,
        gender, religion or sexual orientation”._