The rights of immigrant and undocumented women and children to access free healthcare in South Africa will be put to the test in a court challenge launched byIn December 2019, two-year-old Sibusiso Ncube died of poisoning after he was refused treatment at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital because his Zimbabwean mother could not instantly produce his birth certificate or pay R5,000, says an affidavit in the court case.
Section27 wants all the relevant ordinances and regulations scrapped. It also seeks an order that the Minister of Health issue a circular to all provincial health departments recording that all pregnant or lactating women, and children under six, who are not members of medical aid schemes and who have not come to South Africa to obtain health care, be entitled to free health services at any public health establishment, irrespective of their nationality and documentation status.
Two months later, when she was eight months pregnant and went to Charlotte Maxeke, she was told she had to pay R20,000 if she wanted treatment and give birth at the hospital. Only after Section27 intervened, was she given an appointment, but the night before it she lost her baby. Again Section27 intervened. But in March, when the mother took him back for a check-up, a nurse addressed everyone in the queue and told them that foreign nationals would not be attended to if they did not have money to pay. The mother, and others, left without being seen.
Then why come here?
Foreigners in SA are very lucky ad loved by many anti poor black SAns.
ZanuPF must be charged for negligent, Zimbabwe for Zimbabweans and South Africa for South Africans....
Lies lies lies
Nonsense that will trend south African media
What is Zimbabwe? Is it SA colony or province? Is it not a sovereign and independent country? Why should all of its self inflicted problems blamed on South Africa?
President Mnangagwa marr why are you doing this to us😩😩😭why must we be seen heartless to our neighbours🚮🚮
Direct these people to doctors without borders or any UN affiliated health practitioners SA is not some floodgate of heavenly manna, taxpayers fund our public healthcare meant for SA'ns and it's not even enough for us Zahlula amaroma bakwethu
There are hospitals in Zimbabwe, we cant have people coming here illegally to give birth to kids illegal kids then have them expect legal services of South Africa SA is not a zoo, we already have more then enough in our plates nabo they must go & face their sufferings in Zim
Which hospital ever asked for a birth certificate to do what with it. It's a lie. Give us names
Which hospital. Why are you spreading lies. We would be knowing the name of that hospital by now
We don't care....fusek
that boy should have been taken to Botswana, Zambia, Malawi or Angola even Mozambique for God's sake why SA? Some of the Zimbos residing at Binga area will travel all the way to SA for medical assistance but they are closer to Zambia than to SA
The Zim gvnmnt was supposed to send a private jet and fetch the kid... Oro kanjani Maverick?
Fake news
Zimbabwean hospitals r cruel🤣🤣🤣🤣
Is the mother in prison now for being in the country illegally? That is a crime
South Africa is not obliged to provide free healthcare to SADC citizens!
They are used to being put first that south africans, now that that didn't happen all of a sudden its Xenophobia.
If we look at the buildings we live and work in, the roads we travel, the clothes we wear, or the food we eat, we must acknowledge that all are provided by others. None would exist for us to enjoy and make use of were it not for the kindness of so many people unknown to us.
Section27, it's time you started helping these needy people out coming to you when I can't get health service because of illegals.
What if the child was stolen , the child with no birth certificate. The mother must be investigated
South African children often die in hospitals due congestions but you don't cover their stories. You are a bunch hypocrites who are xenophobic against South Africans. My sincere ondolences to the child & family.
2024 please review all NGO’s in this country
U name nationality only wen Zimbabweans are victims wen they kill us its not mentioned,south africa is slowly become a failed state because of people like u that want to see it down
This should not have happened.The hospital should have treated this boy without any qualms.We urge relevant authorities to conduct a probe and take necessary punitive actions.We believe in human rights,notwithstanding!
Many must be refused so that they can die,and they must not think there's anything they will claim from government bloody makwerekwere.
People DIE EVERY DAY without being REPORTED.
How is this news worthy in SA
Then sue them
Famba Kaya😝 we are a country not charity country.laws apply to everyone. it's time they go fix their own country. AS FOR NOW WE FIXING OURS!!!
The mother should have taken her child to a Dr just like we do or beetroot yet go home and demand health care in the country of origin
Zimbabweans are killing South Africans everyday and none of you say a word. One child dies and it's in your news. Mxm. Should've stayed in Zim. He'd be alive.
You baffoons this thing of undermining our sovereignty is nonsense 😖
We don't pay our income tax to subsidize foreigners who call us lazy. We do that for our own SAns.
When will Daily Maverick stop supporting criminals?
She should have thought about that before jumping the border...Did you know jumping the South African border is a crime?
Such you are quick to report because it's not about South Africa. Tsek
Why didn't she go to a private hospital?
We will see more of this stories but not of black South african who die everyday bcos there's no staff and medication in government clinics and hospitals.
Well thats the law.....
They must all go back home before they all die. VotsekMakwerekwere
Our health facilities don't give treatment to aliens,with no documents to verify who they are,we are not the UN of Africa
So wht should I care?
They must go to private hospitals. They don’t treat you there if you have no money and you cannot sue them. Why must government hospitals accommodate non nationals who are here Illegally
Why doesn't GroundUp offer to pay for private hospital care for all undocumented foreigners?
Why is she not in her own country seeking this treatment? Poor foreigners who are not refugees must go,they cost this country too much. They taking us back instead of forward.
The executive director of Section 27 is: UMUNYANA RUGEGE. Hay we can't breath honestly
E why come to a foreign country without a birth certificate?
Good South Africa should not provide health care to illegal immigrants
And how many South African citizens die each day because a foreign national has been prioritized...
Fotsek
You've decided we're xenophobic & hateful so why would we care about this? The emotional blackmail won't work.
One day South Africans are going to revolt, WATCH THE SPACE.
How unfortunate but what must we do now?
That child was supposed to get treatment in Zimbabwe. Why blame South Africa. Voetsek. Voetsek. Zimbabwe is not a province of South Africa. VoetsekSAMedia NoToZimWorkPermits VoetsekHelenSuzmanFoundation PutSouthAfricansFirst
Because his mother is an undocumented illegal foreigner.
😂😂😂
Thuram23 The mother failed her child. Wasn't the mother supposed to have all legal documents or else stay in her safe country
This shit is the reason why South Africa need to embark on mass deportation of foreigners... They can't sue their governments for not providing this human right 'health' but have the guts to extort and blackmail South African government🚮🤮 SA has limited resources too
So what?
Ok but being forced to give FREE healthcare to anyone who walks through the door is not financially sustainable at all. They aren’t refusing them healthcare, they just want them to pay? Like everyone else? And we wonder why our public health care is in such bad shape…
Best solution is to deport the problem(all Zimbos)
This was not a xenophobic incident. I was once denied treatment in Cape Town because of cultural differences between myself and the doctor seeing me. We were both black and SA citizens. Just recently I was denied treatment in Durban because of incomplete paper trail.
This is so sad to hear, may the little one rest in peace. But why is the Zimbabwean government doing this to their people? Why is it not offering its people good health services?
kaunda_bongi woza ngapha sfebe, u have a funeral to prepare for
Why was he not in Zimbabwe, his not South African so no hard feeling
This is sad for a life to be lost no but here. Question: when will illegal citizenship start being a serious conversation ? when will the burden the put on the SA infrastructure be a conversation ? when will media stop shoving illegals down our throat? Media is the problem
Privileged caucs are disgusting
Zimbabwean government is useless their citizens are here in SA without papers or whatever but they get free treatment, proper health care mxm ai Zimbabweans needs to wake up and go fix their country for future generations, for their kids
Children dies all the time at hospital for one reason or the other. I guess the Children of white people's kitchen girls is more precious than that of SAn children
What is so special about his death, even so-called jesus has died. Blame his mother for bringing him here without relevant papers nothing to do with our hospital
VoetsekSAMedia
As if there's a country that can treat you without proper id documents! Only your home country can do that! You propagandists!!!🙄
Zimbabweans must go back to their land and build hospitals, there's no space for them.
Voetsek
Elivis he didn't die at diepsloet
Who's the director of Section 27?
Where are these organisations when South Africans die waiting in long lines for services? HelenSuzmanFdn please go open shop in Zimbabwe. South Africa owes Zimbabweans nothing.
What were they doing here in the first place? 🙄
ZANU-PF should be blamed for this.
Sikhathele yibo
They will want to get paid by the hospital Labo bona mxm😠😠nizobona
Why do these propagandists ignore the law and quick to label SAcans as vigilantees and xenophobes. Illegal immigrants must be deported immediately
I dont blame you for spreading propaganda to suit your funders narrative. Nobody is buying newspapers anymore, so you have to get funding in order to stabilize your sinking ship.
BoshoffSteeneka The vilification of, and vitriol against the vulnerable by some simpletons here is astounding. But as was said, ‘Only foolish dogs bark at a flying bird’.
Elvis Nyathi story didn't work, now they're fabricating more lies. VoetsekSAmedia
We know in SA some NGO would be suing Gov... Yet they fail to go sue they're country of birth. A sovereign state.
To hell with Zimbabweans 🚮
The question is why is the mother not in Zim
How convenient
Do you know as a legal immigrant in England you PAY for certain health expenses. Here is an ILLEGAL immigrant wanting to have it all for FREE. The mother was reckless and must be arrested. Condolences to her . May the child rest in peace .
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Heart transplants took place at Chris Barnard Hospital. I was living in Greenpoint, Oceanview, when a medical situation led me to seek med assistance there. The way I had to fight them to reassure medical aid wasn't a problem, all because I didn't have my med card at that moment.
The question is who is going to pau for it
Cyza Illegal immigration is a crime if a parent decides to go rob a bank & brings their child to the crime scene, if that child is killed by sercurity officials doing their job whose fault is it
Time has arrived in SA that we as South Africans we should confront the do called NGOs. These are agents who want to make our country to become a lawlessness country.
So South Africa is now forced to offer free heslth to illegal immigrants heee siyajwayelwa straight
At this point WE don't care! Until y'all represent our stories as well as Sòuth Africans
Now they’ll prioritise their children and stay home. Why go to a country without proper documentation. When we travel we take medical insurance for such situation
His mother was careless,had they stayed in Zimbabwe the boy would be alive today
A lesson to all Zimbabweans - GO HOME TO FIX ZIMBABWE! Do you know how many South Africans die due to being unable to afford medical expenses or even transport to the nearest health care centre? Assist by encouraging Zimbabweans to go home
This sounds like a Zim problem, what does the Zim health minister have to say?
Good if this wont make them go then i dont know 🤷♂️🤷♂️
Shem shem shem on South Africa, you will surely harvest hatred and foolishness that you are seeding.
When ever I find foreigners at the clinic, they never get to be checked before me. They don't exist in south africa
Okay and? What were they doing in South Africa anyways? Why weren't they in Zimbabwe?
Good riddance, at least it's a minus on south africans tax money for that child's free school and meals
Poor journalism
We don't owe illegal immigrants free Healthcare
This will fuel more frustration in the country. See what happens when you are nice?
Our taxes are overstretched as it is, we're barely coping
Okay. Please advise them what to do
They shouldn't have been in a South African hospital to begin with. The mother is very irresponsible maybe at a hospital in Zimbabwe he would've been treated since he would have relevant papers
This looks like a sh!it lie
The problem with these NGOs, is that they think SA has unlimited budgets to cater for everyone who jumps the border. SAns are complaining daily about poor service from hospitals and clinics, but NGOs want more and more people to be accommodated, with what resources?
Who is supposed to get a certificate
Very Good they must go to Zim hospital
Here we go again 🤦♂️
How many South Africans have died because nurses and doctors are stretched out, couldn't get adequate care since our hospitals are so full of migrants, have you reported on them?
The audacity. Zimbabweans are a virus. There’s no feee healthcare, it’s paid for by hardworking SAns.
Pure lies.
it is in your interest because you hire zimbabweans in your homes instead of south african citizens.
We have south African issues currently. Those ones must go and stop having their babies in our country just to get refuge.
Zimbabweans are like blood sucking ticks, they are just everywhere causing problems
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Are they not having their own country and their hospitals 🤷🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️eish baya si crowda. SA taxpayers cannot afford funding foreigners’ medical expenses with limited resources in the country 😤😤😤
“They have routinely been denied access to the health care services, or they are pressured into signing acknowledgements of debt and undertakings to pay for services.” S17 of the Immigration Act, 2002 is clear. SA taxpayers cannot supply free health care to other countries.
So you want us to do what
Like our health care can afford foreigners as it cant keep up with its own citizens. Doh should fight this n make sure no foreigner gets health care without payment
Zimbabwean women are reckless. As soon as they cross the border, they make a baby hoping for SASSA money and knowing that SA public hospitals are free for all. That nonsense is over!
Go to hell voetsek
Welcome to Zimbabwe. Basically not a real country.
We know that you are already being captured! 😂
Lies
That was very silly and reckless of the mother to seek healthcare for the kid without a document permitting him to be in the country. Zimbabweans must stop seeing SA as Mother Theresa to rescue them.
There are always casualties within a struggle for your country.
PFUTSEK
This would've never happened had she stayed in her own country. The mother is to blame for this
Must be nice. People should just cross borders and demand healthcare in a foreign country no questions asked. No papers, no payment. We might as well send buses, air planes and trains to rest of the world to collect their poor to come get free health care from SA
I can never stress enough how much of a bad idea NHI is.
His mother murdered him by being extremely irresponsible.
Insisted of this Zimbabweans going to Zimbabwe to fix this mess they busy fighting to stay in SA! What kind of people are they?
Had they went back home, zim, maybe and hopedully, the bby would habe been saved. Our hospitals are full of ppl who do not wnt to fight for their rights in their countries but can call out rights in SA. Go fight mnangwagwa
How many SA children who died due to not receiving treatment in SA hospitals due to over crowding due to illegal flooding the system,we know you only feel pain when it's your precious zimbos dying,we don't care what your opinion is anymore,go fix Zim hospitals