In the latest South African Airways advertisement the airline talks about the one thing that gives it more pleasure than flying South Africans to a foreign destination: flying them home. "Because the grass may not always be greener on the other side," the narrator says.This is a concept that young community service doctor Colin Wittstock can relate to.

Within the space of less than a year, a doctor has managed to turn a Mpumalanga hospital and its clinics into one of the jewels of the public health care system. ANSO THOM reports.