South Africa's health department advertise for 100 new doctors, but white people are told not to apply
The leaked documents reveal that the department wanted to train 366 black doctors in total and their recruitment already has 32 Indian, 12 white and four mixed race registrars.
South Africa is currently facing a race row after The KwaZulu-Natal health department increased its registrar programme in 2019. Previously the numbers were 314, but now they have increased another 100 and made it 414. This time they have criteria, they only want these posts to be filled by black medics.
While some defined this criterion as racism, according to Times Live, the provincial health department said it was “unapologetic about addressing these imbalances of the past”. Ncumisa Mafunda a spokesman for the department said, "South Africa, including KwaZulu-Natal, remains an unequal society with limited opportunities for self-development for those who were historically oppressed."
