Republic of South Africa RSA

The Republic of South Africa (RSA) has a most diverse health care environment, with world-class practice and facilities in wealthy urban areas and some of the most primitive care in poor remote villages, with a vast array between these extremes. Primary care is now the focus of the ANC government in an effort to correct years of neglect and undemocratic practices under the earlier apartheid-oriented regimes. Public health services are being brought to the Black townships as rapidly as resources permit. ... 

Ninety-eight per cent of the world s supply of platinum metals comes from three countries — the former Soviet Union (49%), the Republic of South Africa (43%), and Canada (6%). Because of the different proportions of Pt and Pd in their deposits, the Republic of South Africa is the major source of Pt and the former USSR of Pd. Only in the RSA (where the Bushveld complex contains over 70% of the world s reserves of the platinum metals at concentrations of 8-9 grams per tonne) are the... 

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