@JustineLimLaw In a word? Communism.

@JustineLimLaw The 3 "P's" .... propaganda, parade and photo op.

@JustineLimLaw It’s always a function of political decision making, and Cuba has had 60 years of deliberate policy focused on health provision to its citizens. On the razzmatazz, that happened in Italy too. Solidarity is something to celebrate, especially at these times, no?

@JustineLimLaw SA does not allow for privately trained doctors. The numbers of doctors would have been much better if private facilities and hospitals were allowed to train doctors.

@JustineLimLaw It's nostalgic distraction. @MYANC loves taking peoples minds back to the romantic days when they were freedom fighters and before the party enabled wholesale looting of the country.

@JustineLimLaw @durandjean I also don’t get it? This is all very suspicious.....

@JustineLimLaw We have 36 critical patients at this stage, or do we have more🤔

@JustineLimLaw Thr key issue is not whether we can train doctors? We are losing many doctors through emigration! Imagine if all those in Canada, UK, Australia etc were around! I read about unemployed doctors in the country due to budgets. If this is the case, then no need for Cubans.

@JustineLimLaw @Unathi_Kwaza Apart from celebrating this modern Slavery we every turn down 1000's of young South Africans from entering the medical field because of their skin colour + refuse to register SA doctors qualified overseas

@JustineLimLaw Bizarre!

@JustineLimLaw @Unathi_Kwaza Did anyone ever consider that we may have imported a plane full of Cuban cigars? Huh??

@JustineLimLaw @Unathi_Kwaza We can. Unfortunately they don’t use academic performance as the benchmark to who gets to study, so failure rates are way up.

@JustineLimLaw Cuba didn’t have many ways of earning foreign currency so they embarked on a strategy to have a over supply of doctors and engineers. They now export to earn foreign currency, some of these doctors have worked all year the world.

@JustineLimLaw We can. We have. There is no need for them to be here. This is communism at full @Tilt

@JustineLimLaw The cubans in Brazil are not happy. Cubans sent to the world is very questionable

@JustineLimLaw It was a great excuse for Govt to put some cash into SAA by paying for yet another chartered flight, probably at massively inflated prices. An SAA Airbus A340 was sent to fetch them.

@JustineLimLaw Yes, also there are SA trained doctors and Cuban doctors. Ours are international sought after (for obvious reasons) , and Cuban doctors sought after only by a small band of ANC Comrade Cadres.