The foreign countries should also be sent invoices if their citizens are caught running criminal syndicates. These were the sentiments expressed by Gauteng premier David Makhura during the provincial 2019/2020 budget breakfast meeting held in Illovo, Johannesburg, on Wednesday.
"I think there is a degree in which we need to have a conversation with our SADEC counterparts. There are countries that must pay for their citizens to use our health services. Those countries must pay. Some of these countries are just running as if they are not governments. Think of Lesotho… Swaziland … Zimbabwe and Mozambique. We've governments there but their citizens get almost everything from South Africa.
"The nature of health institutions and services is to save lives. We must go to the government of Zimbabwe and say we've treated so many citizens of your country in our facilities because you are not providing [them with these services and you must pay back the money we've spent on treating them]. We must collect this money from these governments," he said.
That is long overdue ,foreigners even say that ,SA gov is usseles