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South Africa’s unemployment rate has been stubbornly high for several years now, as the economy is not creating enough jobs to meet the demand. Pharmacy graduates are one of the many graduates affected by this phenomenon, with some finding themselves without internship placement on graduation. The South African Pharmacy Council urges pharmacies to use the ‘training delegation regulation’ to employ more interns per approved tutor.

The Pharmacy Act requires of the Registrar to keep up-to-date accurate registers of persons registered to practise the calling of pharmacy in South Africa. The accuracy of the details on the registers is required for verification of registration and registration details, as well as the communication of Council decisions and changes in legislation and procedures to registered persons.

As the world embraces the 4^th Industrial Revolution and we move ever further into the digital age, it is with great excitement that we announce the decision to issue all registered pharmacy professionals with digital registration cards from October 2020.

The South African Pharmacy Council continually strives for excellence and looks for ways to improve upon its responsibilities to the profession. With the aim of protecting the good image of the pharmacy profession, the SAPC has revised the inspection grading methodology and is taking action against pharmacies who continually fail to comply with the GPP.

After serving as Council’s Treasurer since 2013, Ms Nocawe Thipa informed the South African Pharmacy Council of her retirement from the Gauteng Department of Health (GDoH) with effect from 30 April 2020.

Due to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, the Pharmacy Month planning committee has made the difficult decision to postpone the celebration of Pharmacy Month 2020.

On 12 June 2020, the Minister of Health published various proposed amendments to regulations published under the Pharmacy Act, 53 of 1974, for comment.

The practise of the calling of Pharmacy is reserved only for duly qualified and registered persons. Any unqualified and unregistered person found attempting to practise Pharmacy in South Africa would face criminal prosecution while those that allowed such person to practise will be subjected to disciplinary action.