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Medical scheme members skip AGMs as trustees earn huge sums
Daily Maverick
|September 26, 2025
My email inbox is exploding. Not just my work email, but my personal mailbox, which I started as a freelancer back in 2013.
I have 143,657 emails dating back to 2013. As you can imagine, I am running out of space and am desperately trying to delete redundant mails.
And so, like you (be honest), I may sometimes be guilty of glossing over certain emails — like the ones notifying me about the annual general meeting (AGM) of my medical scheme — and my right to vote.
About 8.9 million people belong to just more than 70 medical schemes, according to the Council for Medical Schemes.
I looked at the three biggest medical schemes — Discovery Health, Momentum medical scheme and Bonitas.
The Discovery Health medical scheme has 2.8 million members and Bonitas has about 731,576 beneficiaries.
So, you have to wonder how it is that none of them publishes how many members attend their AGMs — whether online or in person.
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