Untold KFF History Volume 1: South Africa Author: Drew Altman Published: Jun 25, 2026

https://www.kff.org/from-drew-altman/untold-kff-history-volume-1-south-africa/?utm_campaign=KFF-This-Week&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9KKfOHHtc9w7SkqLmIj8s9LzM0SeoWg3iAwMZnrnp13zz-vOxQIpAgdx4ipivpshfAfAJSzkoiuJo1WDtcuL-eMixDdA&_hsmi=425741639&utm_content=425741639&utm_source=hs_email As KFF approaches a leadership transition next year, Founding President and CEO Dr. Drew Altman will share a series of occasional columns about key moments in the organization’s 37-year history. The first in the series recalls KFF’s decades-long commitment to South Africa during and after apartheid. Dr. Altman will continue his regular columns about health policy. “The greatest privilege of my life was to be able to work with Nelson Mandela, and I sometimes wonder what he would make of today’s state of affairs here and in South Africa,” he writes.