I have just finished reading André de Ruyter’s book Truth to Power My Three Years Inside Eskom, which I believe should be read by South Africans interested in why the country is the way it is today. Unlike de Ruyter, I spent my whole professional life in the public sector, while he entered Eskom as the CEO having only worked in the private sector. He acknowledges that he completely underestimated the constraints imposed on him as the Eskom CEO by the public service regulations and processes as well as political oversight. As with de Ruyter when I moved from a clinical role in health services into management in 1994, I experienced…
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2022 …the year that was!
As we enter the last days of 2022, it is worthwhile to reflect on some of the events impacting on the health sector in the year that was. It was an eventful year with both the good and bad. Those who have read my posts during 2022 may feel that I concentrate too frequently on the negative and rarely focus on the positive. That may be true but I only reflect the world around me as I see it. I accept that there are amongst us many good people doing great things who are rarely acknowledged and I also accept that maybe I have failed to focus enough on them.…