The Bangwaketse/SDA Health Service Happened

Monday, October 31, 2016

I note that Sandy Grant is still hell-bent on denying my simple, one would have thought, fairly uncontroversial, contention that: “During the 1920’s, Bangwaketse pioneered the creation of a universal health service, two decades before the British NHS.”

This genuine indigenous initiative was achieved in partnership with the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) mission during the reigns of Kgosi Bathoen II (1928-68) and his regents Kgosi Tshosa (1919-23), Mohumagadi Gagoangwe (1923-24) and Mohumagadi Ntebogang (1924-28).

The October 1929 agreement between Bathoen II and Dr. A.A. Huse of the SDA for the latter to expand its services and provide patients with free medicine and treatment in return for an additional annual payment of 50 pounds sterling per annum can, in this respect, be understood a milestone in the broader process.

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