JONATHAN JANSEN | Medical varsity is dying from protests, is in dire need of life-saving surgery

Rogue elements are preventing Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University from flourishing. It needs help

Imagine you are a treated by a doctor or dentist who in every year of his or her studies lost about one-and-a-half to three months of academic training. Stop imagining. If you are served by a graduate of the country’s only specialist university, your life could be in danger. Welcome to Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU), a once promising institution named after the second president of the ANC...

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