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Tamsin Metelerkamp

Cape Town

Journalist at Daily Maverick

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  • SA health workers face unemployment as USAid funding cut-off hits home

    1 month ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Lerato Mutsila |Tamsin Metelerkamp

    TRUMP 2.0 The termination of USAid funding for HIV programmes has led to mass job losses in the health sector. For some workers, being cut off from patients with urgent medical needs is as bad as facing unemployment. In just a few short weeks, thousands of South African health workers in HIV/Aids programmes funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAid) have had their lives and careers upended.

  • USAid-funded HIV organisations in SA struggle to return to work

    2 months ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Lerato Mutsila |Tamsin Metelerkamp

    TRUMP 2.0 Almost a month on from US President Donald Trump’s executive order freezing almost all foreign development assistance for 90 days, many key health HIV/AIDS programmes in South Africa have been unable to resume life-saving services for patients in need.

  • Healthcare coalition proposes ‘pragmatic’ reforms for SA, says NHI ‘unworkable’

    2 months ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Tamsin Metelerkamp

    The Universal Healthcare Access Coalition has described the NHI Act as ‘unworkable’, stressing the need for pragmatic health system reform.

  • Sona 2025: Civil society on what Ramaphosa got right – and wrong

    2 months ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Lerato Mutsila |Naledi Sikhakhane |Tamsin Metelerkamp

    SONA 2025 While some civil society organisations are cautiously optimistic about statements from President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address 2025, a repeated refrain across a number of sectors was: ‘We’ve heard it all before’.

  • Interim relief for listeriosis class action claimants with urgent medical needs

    2 months ago | bizcommunity.com | Tamsin Metelerkamp |Mongezi Mtati |Karabo Ledwaba

    Advertise your job vacancies 2 days7 days30 daysBy Industry Show more Certain claimants in the listeriosis class action suit against Tiger Brands have been offered some relief, as Tiger Brands, Richard Spoor Inc and LHL Attorneys today announced they have reached an agreement for advance payments to those with urgent medical requirements. The case, meanwhile, continues.

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Tamsin Metelerkamp
Tamsin Metelerkamp @tams_intransit
24 Mar 25

Just more than a week after he was declared ‘persona non grata’ in the US, the former South African ambassador has arrived at Cape Town International Airport. https://t.co/rCoKhuu3ej

Tamsin Metelerkamp
Tamsin Metelerkamp @tams_intransit
18 Feb 25

Almost a month on from US President Donald Trump’s executive order freezing almost all foreign development assistance, many key health HIV/AIDS programmes in South Africa have been unable to resume life-saving services for patients in need. https://t.co/tUuZLU6svY

Tamsin Metelerkamp
Tamsin Metelerkamp @tams_intransit
6 Feb 25

RT @dailymaverick: The Daily Maverick team is ready to bring you the latest from SONA 2025. Working outside CT City Hall to report on the a…