South Africa has 43 892 registered medical practitioners in 2016. 25.85% of these were black.
Historically, the Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine at the University of KwaZulu-Natal has been South Africa’s premier medical school in terms of generating black graduates. They admit around 250 individuals every year (from approximately 8 300 applications) and have a quota system in effect for the first year of the MBChB degree program.
Here’s how it breaks down: 69% were black, 19% were Indian, 9% were colored, 2% were white, and 1% were other. The MBChB is the University’s sole program with a quota system. A total of 145 black pupils graduated from the School in 2005. By 2013, this figure had climbed to 211. (Data given by the HPCSA)
Who was South Africa’s first black doctor?
Soga, William Anderson
William Anderson Soga was South Africa’s first black medical doctor. He was the son of Tiyo Soga, a Transkei native who was consecrated as the first black South African minister of religion in the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland on December 10, 1856.
In South Africa, how many physicians are there?
This note demonstrates that, contrary to official sources claiming that there are 36,9123 doctors practicing in South Africa, we discover evidence of just 27,432 doctors practicing in total (17,802 GPs and 9,630 specialists).
Who was South Africa’s first female doctor?
Dr Mary Susan Makobatjatji Malahlela (Posthumous) Awarded for: Her outstanding commitment to the provision of medical services to South Africa’s oppressed majority throughout the apartheid era. She was the first African woman to be licensed as a doctor in South Africa.
