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| Location: | Greenstone Edenvale |
| Education level: | Matric |
| Job level: | Junior |
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CAPE TOWN – Day Zero will not occur in 2018 and this means taps will stay open, provided Cape Town residents continue consuming water at current levels and there is decent rainfall, Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Mmusi Maimane said on Wednesday.
Maimane was speaking at a press briefing at the party’s federal head office in Cape Town.
“Just less than two months ago, the City of Cape Town was in a dire position. We were told that due to the worst drought the city had seen in over 100 years, its water supply was near depletion, and Day Zero, the day on which the taps would turn off was set to arrive on April 12.
“I am therefore happy to announce today that provided we continue consuming water at current levels, and we receive decent winter rainfall this year, Day Zero will not occur in 2018. This means the taps will stay open in 2018!”
“This 60% reduction in consumption is an incredible achievement and outperforms many other cities across the world which faced severe droughts, including Sao Paulo, Melbourne, and the State of California,” he added.
Maimane, however, said that while the collective achievement must be celebrated, “this is not the time for complacency”.
“While it is now unlikely to occur in 2018, Day Zero is still a very real possibility during the 2019 summer months if we do not have significant rainfall this winter. I want to reiterate, and cannot stress enough, that we need to keep at current consumption levels until at least after the winter rainfall. We can and we must continue to use less than 50 litres of water (per person) per day so that Day Zero can be defeated in its entirety.”
He added that he was confident that residents will not return to previous wasteful water practices. “There is a ‘new normal’ in the Western Cape around water use. We must continue in this current spirit of utmost respect for this precious natural resource, and never waste it. It must also be made clear that this hinges on the national department of water and sanitation honouring its agreement as to the amount of bulk water that will be supplied to the city and the province over the year,” said Maimane.
Depending on the extent of consumption and the amount of rain received over the winter months, the city may be in a position to scale back the current restrictions from Level 6B to Level 5 in the near future Maimane added.
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| Travel requirement: | Occasional |
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| Location: | KwaMhlanga, Phola Park |
| Education level: | Degree |
| Job level: | Mid/Senior |
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Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi on Wednesday promised much stricter legislation governing tobacco, saying he “hates” the tobacco industry, and all it has caused is mayhem.
Motsoaledi, speaking at the opening of the World Conference on Tobacco or Health being held in Cape Town, was responding to the CEO for the Tobacco, Alcohol and Gambling Advisory, Advocacy and Action Group (TAG), Peter Uck, who said South Africa’s tobacco control used to be on par with other global leaders, but has since slacked.
He urged Motsoaledi that the country needs further, stronger legislation.
“Truly speaking, I need no encouragement. I don’t need anybody to encourage me, because I can assure you, if there is one person who hates, and is not prepared to apologise to the tobacco industry, it will be myself,” Motsoaledi said.
“I do not believe that tobacco contributed anything to the development of humanity on this planet. Whether socially, academically, economically, it never contributed anything. All it caused is mayhem.”
Stronger legislation
“I can assure you that we are going to legislate further and we wish to apologise, even to the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC), that South Africa was ahead of many countries and we slowed down. We are now going to accelerate.
“The legislation that’s in the pipeline, it is already in the system of government (sic). We are going to abolish the 25% smoking space in public buildings. I don’t want to blame the legislators who gave the 25%, they were putting a foot in the door to open it a little bit. That 25% was a compromise, so now that we have it, we want more. We are doing away with that 25%. We also need to stop this behaviour of just getting out of a building and smoking right there.”
Motsoaledi said that when the tobacco control act was passed in 2005, the act did not include e-cigarettes, which meant when you were advertising it, it was not against the law, because it wasn’t stipulated in the act.
He said e-cigarettes will now be included in the act – this and all the other nicotine dispensing gadgets that are being used around the country.
“The third thing in advertising was that, even though there is no longer advertising in South Africa, there is still advertising inside the stores. In the legislation we are going to remove the cigarette packets in the transparent cupboards, they must go hide them at the back. We must not expose our children to see those subtle adverts inside the shop.
“And lastly, something that looks extremely stupid, that in the modern era, where even the very highly educated people have become content – it’s all of us, I’m not blaming any particular individual – when we write on the cigarette package ‘not to be sold to people under the age of 18’. We feel it’s powerful and prominent, but then we put cigarette vending machines all over, which don’t recognise age. It recognises money. So, we want to abolish all cigarette vending machines in the country.”
Plain packaging
Last year, BusinessTech reported that several new laws may be on the cards, once the legislation is passed. Motsoaledi had mentioned a few of them, such as the abolishing of smoking in public buildings, which is believed to include designated smoking areas in restaurants.
They added that there would also be the removal of branding, and packaging would only have the specific brand name, along with the warning labels.
Motsoaledi added that there would be “plain packaging” as well, which speaks to the removal of brand-specific package designs and might be replaced by graphic images.
New research, new watchdog
Motsoaledi was speaking at the launch of two World Health Organization (WHO) FCTC South African hubs aimed at improving tobacco control in South Africa.
The Knowledge Hub on Tobacco Taxation will find its home at the University of Cape Town, whereas the African Tobacco Industry Monitoring Centre, which is an observatory to monitor the tobacco industry, has been established at Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, in Pretoria.
Motsoaledi highlighted the importance of the two hubs and how privileged the country is to have them. He also said that hopefully, over time, it will lead to the elimination of tobacco products.
“I would like to thank the World Health Organisation and the FCTC Secretariat, in particular, for this investment, not only in our country, but for this continent. These hubs will provide significant capacity to government and civil society, to deal decisively with the tobacco industry.
“We know the tobacco industry is very sneaky. They find all manners and means to increase consumption, as well as their profits. We, therefore, must develop serious fire power to deal with their strategies and tactics. We need to be ahead of the curve; we can no longer afford to be reactive, we must be proactive and see beyond their strategies,” said Motsoaledi.
Motsoaledi, along with Mike Bloomberg, CEO of Bloomberg LP and former New York mayor, and WHO Director General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, officially opened the conference.
The 17th WCTOH takes place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) and it is the first such conference to take place on African soil.
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| Location: | Cape Town |
| Education level: | Diploma |
| Job level: | Mid |
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Posted on 07 Mar 11:37
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Annual medical scheme claims expenditure rose on average by 11.3% a year over the past decade, far faster than consumer price inflation, which increased on average by just 6.1%.
DHMS is the biggest open scheme in the country, with 2.7-million lives, and represents 31% of the total market.
The data highlight the financial strain facing many medical scheme members, who typically face annual hikes to their medical scheme premiums that outstrip their salary increases.
It is a problem that has vexed the Council for Medical Schemes for years and is among issues being scrutinised by the Competition Commission’s health market inquiry, which is expected to finalise its work later this year.
Discovery Health CEO Jonathan Broomberg said the data, packaged as the Discovery Health Medical Inflation Tracker, were intended to inform the debate about what was driving increased medical scheme expenditure. “In our view, if you are a member of a medical scheme this is a very accurate tracker of the way your expenditure has gone up.
“It represents 56% of the open market. Of course, at the margin there will be a scheme here or there that has an unusual [contribution] increase, but they are exceptional,” he said.
The tracker assumed benefits had remained constant in the period under review.
It unpacks the extent to which the annual increase in medical scheme claims has been driven by changes in the price of healthcare services, such as the fees for a consultation with a specialist or a night in hospital, and changes in the volume of services used by members, such as visits to GPs.
Between 2008 and 2017, the tariffs charged by healthcare providers such as doctors and hospitals closely tracked moves in the consumer price index (CPI). Tariffs rose on average by 0.5% above CPI during this period, at 6.6%. The use of services rose 4.7% a year because of increased demand for services from an ageing medical scheme population, a significant increase in the burden of chronic disease, changes to clinical practice and new technologies, drugs and hospitals.
The cost of treating breast cancer, for example, with chemotherapy, including the biological Herceptin, is about R335,000. Chemotherapy without the biological is about R39,000.
The tracker shows medical scheme claims inflation was 10.5% between 2016 and 2017, four percentage points higher than CPI, making it the lowest rate since 2011-12.
The key factor contributing to the lower increase was a drop in hospital admissions.
Both DHMS and the Government Employees Medical Scheme experienced a sharp rise in hospital admissions in 2015-16. Broomberg said DHMS had deployed case managers to hospitals where they had worked to get more patients treated as outpatients.