Methodsĭifferent data types were collected to gain a rich understanding of the current context of social innovation in health within South Africa, supported by mini-case studies and examples from across the African continent, including: primary interviews, literature reviews, and organisational documentation reviews. The aim of this study is to demonstrate the capacity for social innovation in health with respect for South Africa, and to highlight some current innovations that respond to issues of health equity such as accessibility, affordability, and acceptability. Within this framework, the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship works to pursue social impact towards social justice in Africa with a systems lens on social innovation within innovative finance, health, education and youth development. The South African health system is currently engaged in the complex project of establishing universal health coverage that ensures the system’s ability to deliver comprehensive care that is accessible, affordable and acceptable to patients and families, while acknowledging the significant pressures to which the system is subject. The country is beset by persistent social inequality, poverty, unemployment, a heavy burden of disease and the inequitable quality of healthcare service provision. I cried more than once watching video footage of police brutality in Soweto in the 70's and reading about the conditions under which most of the citizens of this country lived for so many generations.Despite the end of apartheid in the early 1990s, South Africa remains racially and economically segregated. Maya and I just spent a ridiculously fun 2 days in Soweto (South Western Township), which is only about 20 minutes from Jo'burg. We made friends with these two amazing Sowetan woman: Jane works at the Nelson Mandela Museum (his old house in Soweto) and Senele is a documentary film maker. What I disliked about District 9 « Digital immigrant 2009Īnd that there are many middle class people living in Soweto? Today, the vast segregated city that occupies the general area of these “South West Townships” is known by the acronym Soweto.ĭoes Blomkamp not know that Desmond Tutu lives in Soweto?
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