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Jubilee District Hospital in Pretoria, South Africa. Photo by Felix Dlangamandla/Daily Maverick/Gallo Images via Getty Images

February 11, 2026

Public healthcare and contracting out: can it work? Global review presents some answers

Zoheb Khan, Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP); University of Johannesburg; Frederico Haddad, Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP), and Leslie London, University of Cape Town

Contracting out healthcare requires state capacity and public participation.

Jubilee District Hospital in Pretoria, South Africa. Photo by Felix Dlangamandla/Daily Maverick/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

July 5, 2024

South Africa’s healthcare system: eight steps that would get it on the right track

Lilian Dudley, Stellenbosch University; Catherine Mathews, South African Medical Research Council; Flavia Senkubuge, University of Pretoria; Guinevere Lourens, Stellenbosch University; Leslie London, University of Cape Town, and Sharon Fonn, University of the Witwatersrand

Much needs to be done to improve governance of South Africa’s health system. Eight recommendations provide a guide to what needs to be prioritised.

In December 2020 South Africa announced a new ban on alcohol sales. Phill Magakoe / AFP via Getty Images

March 22, 2021

We tested claims that limiting alcohol advertising in South Africa would violate rights

Adam Bertscher, University of Bath and Leslie London, University of Cape Town

Opponents to South Africa’s Bill restricting alcohol advertising claimed it would unjustifiably violate human rights, such as freedom of expression, and consumers’ rights to information.

Global evidence suggests that alcohol advertisements increase adolescents’ favourable attitudes towards drinking. Shutterstock

January 29, 2019

How easy access to alcohol, and adverts, affect women in South Africa

Leslie London, University of Cape Town; Neo Morojele, South African Medical Research Council, and Hanna Amanuel, Addis Ababa University

Easy access to alcohol and exposure to alcohol advertisements affect social and health outcomes.

Alcohol abuse in South Africa has roots in the dop system, introduced by Dutch colonists was a means of paying farm workers with cheap alcohol. Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters

September 9, 2015

South Africa fails to tackle its high foetal alcohol syndrome rate

Leslie London, University of Cape Town

Dealing with foetal alcohol syndrome in South Africa needs more than telling women to stop drinking during pregnancy. It must also deal with the society around them.

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