BHEKISISA: SA’s regulators are struggling to keep up with black market weight-loss jabs
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South African regulators have won an important court battle against a pharmacy making its own versions of popular weight-loss injections. But illegal and experimental drugs are still being sold openly, while new rules to crack down on th…
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