RC 260924SAfmJoanne Joseph
Thursday, 24 September 2026
Heritage Day conversations ranged from apartheid-era abuses and contested land identity to rising medical aid costs, public spending failures and a nationwide tree-planting drive.
- 10:11
Investigative journalist Graham Robenheimer described Dr Aubrey Levine’s apartheid-era aversion therapy programme for gay SADF conscripts as torture, with survivors still seeking answers and no known reparations.
- 10:42
The Board of Healthcare Funders said the proposed 3.8% medical aid increase is unrealistic: last year’s recommended 3.3% rise became an average 8.1% increase.
- 09:52
Auditor-General figures showed fruitless and wasteful expenditure of about R1.4 billion in national and provincial government, and R6.3 billion in municipalities during the reported year.
- 11:16
Heritage Day callers debated land, identity and title deeds, with one listener arguing that untitled rural property worth an estimated R3 trillion cannot be used as loan security.
- 11:40
South Africa’s tree campaign had passed seven million plantings during the day, towards a 10-million-tree target, while the longer-term presidential goal is one billion trees.