The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in Bloemfontein ruled on 11th of April that the controversial regulations for complementary medicines under the Medicines and Related Substances Act (Act 101 of 1965) are invalid and
unlawful.
The SCA dismissed an appeal by the Minister of Health and the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) against a previous North Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) judgement in favour of the Alliance of Natural Health Products South Africa (ANHP), by Judge Elizabeth Kabushi on the 1st of October 2020. The verdict follows after the ANHP, a TNHA partner, took the Minister of Health and the SAHPRA to court over contested regulations that would regulate all natural health products, defined as complementary medicines and health supplements as medicines.
