INTEGRATED REPORT 2020

Our history

  1. AfroCentric incorporated (80% effective interest acquired) and listed on the JSE

  2. Acquired AfroCentric Health Group (80% effective interest)

  3. Increased effective interest in AfroCentric Health to 94.1%

  4. Helios IT Solutions acquired a 51% interest in Allegra

  5. Acquired South African licence of document based care (DBC) back and neck rehabilitation programme


  1. Acquired:
    100% of Pharmacy Direct – 100% of Curasana 26% of Activo Health


    Sanlam acquired 28.7% of AfroCentric Healthcare Assets, a major subsidiary of AfroCentric Investment Corporation


    Awarded POLMED scheme contract

  2. Acquired:
    51% of The Cheese Has Moved (TCHM) 100% of Wellness Odyssey


    Amalgamation of Bonitas and Liberty added
    125 000 lives to our care

    Pharmacy Direct secured further contracts for the delivery of chronic medicine to public sector patients, increasing footprint from five to seven South African provinces

  3. Acquired:
    51% of EssentialMed 80% of Scriptpharm Risk Management 70% of MMed Distribution

    ADS acquired 51% of Tendahealth

    COMMED merged with Bonitas

    Awarded Hosmed contract

    Pharmacy Direct awarded four of nine provinces in the new National Department of Health (NDoH) Central Chronic Medicine Dispensing and Distribution (CCMDD) contracts, increasing volumes from 50% to an estimated 80%

  4. Acquired:
    Remaining 74% of Activo Health 82.8% of PHA 100% of Sanlam Health (renamed AfroCentric Integrated Health Administrators) Additional 25% of Associated Fund Administrators Botswana

    Medshield Hospital and Fraud Management Bonitas Actuarial Services

    Hosmed Medicine Management

    POLMED contracts Scriptpharm for Chronic Medicine Management

  5. Acquired:
    Remaining 20% of Scriptpharm effective 1 August 2020 Remaining 17.2% of PHA effective 1 October 2019 Additional 17% of TCHM DENIS effective 1 October 2020

    Scriptpharm won Bonitas Chronic Medicine Management and POLMED HIV Chronic Medicine Management contracts

    Medscheme won a contract to administer MEDiPOS Medical Scheme




Health administration and risk management

Expansion across healthcare value chain