'The realities of apartheid are not to be found in segregated parks and separated lavatories, but in infant mortality rates, cholera epidemics and TB statistics.'

This book shows that disease in South Africa is connected at every turn with the unequal distribution of the country's resources. Case studies reveal how South African society has created disease among its black population, and explain why the country has no national health service. It concludes that effective health care in South Africa can only become a reality through pressure from trade unions, community organizations and women's organizations aware of the link between social structures and disease.

CEDRIC DE BEER is currently involved with a rural health project supported by the University of Witwatersrand, and has also worked with the Environmental and Development Agency. He has published a number of reports on health care in South Africa.