{"id":34757,"date":"2026-05-18T13:32:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=34757"},"modified":"2026-05-18T13:32:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:32:03","slug":"sa-court-rules-sections-of-nhi-invalid","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-court-rules-sections-of-nhi-invalid\/","title":{"rendered":"SA court rules sections of NHI invalid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"elementToProof\"><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Constitutional Court has declared parts of the National Health Act (NHI) invalid, finding that some provisions placed unfair limitations on the rights of health care practitioners and facilities.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">\nThe law required healthcare providers to obtain state approval before opening, expanding or relocating practices a requirement the court says failed to strike a proper balance between competing rights and interests.<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">\nThe case was brought by the Board of Healthcare Funders, which argued that Parliament did not allow for meaningful public participation during the legislative process.<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">\nThe Western Cape Province, government also challenged the process, claiming that the National Council of Provinces did not follow the correct procedures when approving the legislation.<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">\nThe court has ordered the respondents to pay legal costs, including those of counsel.<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20591,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-34757","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"National Health Act","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34758,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34757\/revisions\/34758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=34757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}