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Accessible and quality healthcare is a pillar of sustainable development and global security. The principle behind this is that no one should fall into poverty because they get sick and need healthcare. South Africa’s response to the global call for universal healthcare is the National Health Insurance (NHI) bill, which aims to provide everyone with access to appropriate, efficient and quality health services.
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“The Health Market Inquiry has spelt out the failure of the private sector to make affordable quality healthcare available to more people. To move towards universal health coverage, holistic care delivered by a multidisciplinary team is required,” says Dr Brian Ruff, co-founder of PPO Serve.
Access to quality healthcare forms the basis for the realisation of a wide variety of socioeconomic rights. The purchaser role put forward by the NHI will ensure the efficient use of resources to benefit the country’s entire health system. “The model introduces a single fund that will also support the purchasing of medical services for the country,” he says.
In contrast to the current model, in which schemes attempt to manage care and spend through restricted benefits and pre-authorisation, the NHI fund will be responsible for the lives of 57-million South Africans. “Under it, providers – whether public, private, or not for profit – will compete for local contracts based on how well they deliver value. This includes primary healthcare and hospital services,” says Ruff.
The goal of universal health coverage is to provide full comprehensive care to all citizens and legal residents of a country. “By pooling funds, the NHI has the ability to provide access to quality and affordable health services for all South Africans based on their healthcare needs and irrespective of their socioeconomic status. There are many countries, with less resources who provide quality healthcare care for everybody,” he says.
To work effectively, the NHI needs to appoint a competent team to design template strategic contracts that are robust and fair. “These value-based care contracts must use payment models that support the use of all available resources, that reflect population needs and that reward good outcomes. This means the model needs case mix tools – data which shows that patients are treated at the right level of care relative to their illness – to be available at every level of the system.”
Population medicine models demonstrate their value by improved measures of both the quality of healthcare delivered, as well as a reduction in spend. “The strength of this team-based and community level model is in managing complex medical conditions as well as the direct impact of social, psychological and financial circumstances on patients’ illnesses and treatment,” says Ruff.
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This beautiful, free-standing country-styled home is safe and secure, tucked away amongst the mature trees – the perfect home for a keen tenant. The classic country home features 5 bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms, as well as a fully contained cottage situated on an acre of prime land in Bryanston. The large French-styled, family kitchen has a walk-in pantry and a separate scullery which opens out onto a covered deck, leading to a beautiful pool and well-manicured evergreen garden. The extensive family room opens out onto a covered patio with a built-in braai, and a unique bar with a cellar which can be used as a family game room/dining room where many a splendid dinner party can be enjoyed by all.
A study is situated next to the cellar, and a three quarter turn staircase with a solid wooden turned balustrade leads one upstairs to the pyjama/TV lounge which has lots of natural light streaming in. The main bedroom has an en-suite which has both shower and bath as well as a double vanity. The main bedroom has its own private balcony which has a magnificent view of the garden and surrounding properties in the area. This beautiful, free-standing country-styled home is safe and secure, tucked away amongst the mature trees – perfect property for a great family home.
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Sure, you can schlep to the gym and hop on the elliptical for 45 minutes. Or you can lace up your sneaks and head outside for a long run to turn up your heart rate and calorie burn. But when the temperatures drop or you just don’t have time to leave your house, you can still squeeze in a solid cardio workout at home. All you need is a little room to move—and the ability to push yourself, just enough so your heart starts pumping and the sweat starts flowing.
How can you do that? Two words: plyometric exercises.“[These] exercises are perfect for a cardio workout at home, as they save space (all the movements can be done in one place) and time because it requires max effort—and thus, less overall time spent—while also offering strength, power, and cardio benefits,” Judine Saint Gerard, NASM-CPT, head coach at Tone House in New York City, tells Health. “With these added benefits of strength and power, it may be even better than just trotting away on the elliptical.”
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The key to working hard enough to reap all the fitness rewards: firing up your core temperature so you start dripping sweat. “Most cardio workouts produce heat in the body—the more strenuous the workout, the more heat it produces, and sweating is the body’s way of cooling down,” she says. If you work through a cardio workout at home and finish it sweat-free, you’ll want to power up your intensity on the next go around. That means working faster or taking fewer breaks.
If you need a cardio workout to kick off your at-home training, Saint Gerard has the perfect routine for you. Here, she offers 10 plyometric exercises, plus how to time them to your heart-pumping advantage. Each one also has a low-impact variation for anyone jumping back into fitness after a long hiatus or someone who's starting a regular exercise routine for the first time. They're also smart options for those with injuries. The only thing you have to remember is to work hard so you end in sweat—so don't be too easy on yourself.
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If you’re opting for the high-impact plyometric moves, do each exercise below for 30 seconds, and rest for 30 seconds between each exercise. Prefer staying on two feet and skipping the jumps? Follow the modified moves for 30 seconds each, with just 15 seconds of rest between each exercise. Do 2-3 rounds with 60-90 seconds of rest between each round. The best part: the more you practice the less rest you’ll need.
1. Start in a plank position, shoulders over wrists, forming a straight line from shoulders to heels.
2. Keep core tight and back flat. Drive one knee in toward chest, then place it back down.
3. Immediately drive the opposite knee in toward chest. Then, place it back down. Continue alternating.
Modification: Eliminate the hop and slow down your pace, still driving one knee at a time in toward your chest.
1. Start in a plank position, shoulders over wrists, forming a straight line from shoulders to heels.
2. Lower down as if you’re doing a push-up, keeping elbows tight by sides.
3. Then, move chest through arms, coming into a cobra or up-dog pose (slight arch in the back; chest toward the sky).
4. Next, push through hands and lift hips all the way up to a downward-facing dog position. Repeat, flowing back to a plank position.
Modification: Drop the knees while you lower into a push-up position for more support.
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1. Start standing, feet hip-width apart.
2. Place both hands flat onto the ground in front of you and hop feet behind you into a plank. Make sure to keep hips up, core tight, forming a straight line from shoulders to heels.
3. Then, quickly hop feet back up toward hands.
4. Jump all the way up to stand, bringing arms above head and exploding off feet. Repeat.
Modification: Place hands flat on ground, step left foot back, then step right foot back and pause in plank. Then, step left foot in, step right foot in, and stand back up, bringing arms overhead.
1. Start standing, feet together.
2. Step left leg back and lower into a lunge, both knees bent 90 degrees, back right knee just hovering off the floor.
3. Push through the heel of the front left leg to explode up, switching feet in the air.
4. Land softly back into a lunge position, right foot forward. Repeat with right foot forward and continue alternating.
Modification: Instead of jumping up from the lunge, drive through the heel of the front leg, bring back knee up toward chest and then kick it straight out in front of you. Place foot back down and step back with the opposite foot. Continue alternating lunges with a front kick.
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1. Start standing, feet slight wider than hip-width apart.
2. Push your hips back and down, keeping weight in the heels as you lower into a squat.
3. Explode off your feet, extending your hips to jump up into the air.
4. Land softly back into a squat position, knees bent. Repeat.
Modification: Eliminate the jump and push the pace of a regular bodyweight squat.
1. Start in a plank position, shoulders over wrists, forming a straight line from shoulders to heels.
2. Hop your feet in so that your hips drive straight up into the air and you hit a reverse V shape.
3. Then, hop the feet back to a plank position. Repeat.
Modification: From your plank position, walk feet up toward hands to create the reverse V shape, and then walk them back to a plank. Repeat, while pushing your pace.
RELATED: 20 Plank Exercises You Can Do at Home
1. Start standing, feet hip-width apart.
2. Push off your left foot to hop to the right, landing with a bent knee, hips back, chest up, and bringing your left foot behind your right.
3. Then, push off your right foot, hopping to the left. Continue alternating.
Modification: Alternate curtsy lunges by stepping one foot diagonally behind you, lowering into a lunge position with knees bent 90 degrees. Step back up to standing and repeat on the other side. Continue alternating.
1. Start standing, feet hip-width apart.
2. Lower into a shallow squat position and then explode up into the air, driving knees up into chest.
3. Land softly back down, with bent knees. Repeat.
Modification: Start in a kneeling position. Step left forward, and then right, coming into a low squat position. Then stand up. Lower back into a squat. Then place left leg back down to a kneeling position, and then right leg. Repeat, starting with the right leg. Continue alternating.
RELATED: 4 Fat-Blasting Jumping Exercises
1. Start standing, feet together.
2. Place a yoga block or band next to you (or pretend there is a hurdle next to you). Bend knees slightly and drive up and over, hopping over the “hurdle” as you drive knees up.
3. Land softly with bent knees. Repeat, hopping to the other side. Continue alternating.
Modification: Instead of jumping over the “hurdle,” step over it, starting with the knee closest to the hurdle, and still driving the knees up toward chest. Keep arms straight overhead as you go.
1. Start standing with feet together.
2. Drive one knee up toward chest, with the opposite arm driving forward (elbows bent 90 degrees).
3. Quickly place the foot back down and drive the other knee up and opposite arm forward.
4. Continue alternating, landing lightly with each step like you’re running in place.
Modification: March the knees up toward the chest, eliminating the hop.
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Cape Town – The pace and violence of Cricket South Africa’s (CSA) descent into widespread levels of chaos has been as remarkable as the phenomenon itself.
Perhaps, for purposes of demonstration, resorting to the cricket calendar is the most educative yardstick: England are already in the warm-up phase of a major tour of our shores – the opening match against the Proteas is the first Test at Centurion from Boxing Day – and the domestic backdrop is enormously different to when they last had a safari here, in 2015/16.
Mostly for all the wrong reasons.
When vastly experienced (domestically and internationally) administrator, chartered accountant, former SACB first-class player and then-CEO Haroon Lorgat presented his CSA annual statement for 2015/16, he wrote bullishly at the time: “We experienced another stellar financial performance during the period under review, with our actual revenue exceeding budget by some margin (2016: actual R825m, budget R620m; 2015: actual R761m, budget R511m).
“We were also flattered by the renewal of all our major commercial sponsorships plus a new four-year flagship deal with Standard Bank South Africa … they are now the Proteas’ title sponsor across all three formats of the game.”
Whisk to the present, and CSA’s financial conundrum, by stark contrast, is extremely well-documented … a situation only compounded a few days ago by Standard Bank announcing their quitting of the Proteas sponsorship after the current season, following a sequence of debilitating flashpoints in the corridors of power which culminated in the suspension earlier this month of Lorgat’s successor as CEO in late 2017, Thabang Moroe.
While Lorgat was able to trumpet the firmly “on board” status of various other vital sponsors four years back, a glaring feature of the Moroe administration has been its inability to boast commercial backing for the lion’s share of major franchise competitions and even the supposed new “international-flavoured” but currently loss-making Mzansi Super League.
Back in 2015/16, the now merely “CSA 4-Day Franchise Series” was still the Sunfoil Series, and the then still active franchise T20 competition (abolished now after being run as the CSA T20 Challenge before falling victim to austerity measures this summer) was sponsored by Ram Slam.
Only the Momentum One-Day Cup maintains a common title between 2015/16 and the present.
But the national team set-up was also infinitely more clear-cut when it came to occupation of important, clear-cut portfolios.
There was a full-time head coach then in Russell Domingo – roughly in the middle of his four-year tenure – as opposed to the confusing situation just a few days ago of an interim director of cricket (Graeme Smith, just signed, albeit for only three months) overseeing an interim team director in Enoch Nkwe (now effectively slipping a notch to assistant coach, after one series, with the appointment of Mark Boucher to 2023 as head coach … at least a decisive step).
Nor were the national selection berths vacant, as they had been more recently for several months: at the time, Linda Zondi (welcomed back on board on Saturday) then headed up a panel also comprising Hussain Manack, Domingo and two former national players in Ashwell Prince and Errol Stewart.
Just a handful of months onward from the English visit of 2015/16, South Africa played in a one-day international Tri-Series in the Caribbean (also featuring West Indies and Australia) … and a landmark event occurred that would, arguably, make a significant mockery of at least part of the campaign to oust the streetwise Lorgat as CEO in 2017.
Later to be branded “anti-transformational” by an increasingly strident, ambitious black African lobby within the CSA corridors, Lorgat was proudly able to trumpet, in early June 2016, a national team fielding an unprecedented eight players of colour.
Not only that, but the combination – which saw appearances for all of Hashim Amla, JP Duminy, Farhaan Behardien, Wayne Parnell, Aaron Phangiso, Imran Tahir, Tabraiz Shamsi and an emerging pace sensation in Kagiso Rabada – whipped the Aussies by 47 runs in Providence, Guyana.
Mere lip-service to transformation under Lorgat’s watch? Hardly, it seemed crystal clear.
Remember, too, a rich irony at the time: CSA were among several domestic sports administrative bodies being forbidden, by then Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula (now Minister of Transport, mind), from bidding for international-event hosting because of what he perceived to be a sluggish pace of transformation.
If you wished to deepen that sense of irony further, you could run the rule over the last Proteas team to play a one-day international, under the CSA charge of a pre-suspension Moroe: in the last match of their ill-fated 2019 World Cup on July 6, a consolation, narrow triumph over Australia at Old Trafford, South Africa fielded an XI dominated by white players.
Any perceptive, visiting English enthusiast (there are always plenty of them) to South Africa for the looming series, interested in more than just on-field fortunes between the two countries, might well scratch his or her head over just how comprehensively cricket administration here has lost its lustre and competency in the space of the four years between tours.
Somewhere, Haroon Lorgat (far from faultless, yet reputationally the skipper of tight ships) might be looking into a non-alcoholic beverage and pondering recent life with some sense of bewilderment as well …
*Follow our chief writer on Twitter: @RobHouwing …
