Healthforce™ | Our Doctors

Dr Asanda Sibango

Dr Sibango obtained her MBChB from Walter Sisulu University in 2007. Her special interests are primary healthcare and chronic illness management. She is a Grade 2 Medical Officer in private practice and also a sessional doctor at a public hospital.

Dr Chuene Maponya

Dr Maponya graduated with an MBChB from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2014 and currently works in an accident and emergency department at ER Consulting Inc. She and her husband are raising two boys and are based in Pretoria.

Dr Debbie Rabinowitz

Dr Rabinowitz graduated in 2000. She spent four years in the UK working in Paediatrics before opening a health centre in Cape Town. She has diplomas in Child Health and Practitioner Coaching. Her special interests are paediatrics and family medicine.

Dr Gerhard van Niekerk

Dr Van Niekerk graduated from the University of Stellenbosch in 1988. He has practised around the world in general medicine, anaesthetics, emergency medicine, and family medicine. His special interests are men’s health, psychiatry and asthma.

Dr JC Venter

JC has been working as a GP in Sedgefield since 1993. After graduating from Stellenbosch University in 1989, JC completed an M. Fam. Med, a masters in pain control, as well as ACLS, ATLS and APLS diplomas. He is currently enrolled in a three year diploma in through EULAR. JC is also an inventor, having created a urine sampling device for female patients that is currently distributed by Aspec Pharmacare. 75 % of his week is spent at his medical practice and the other 25% is spent doing anaesthesia for plastic surgeon and eye specialists and dentists. In between, JC still does workers compensation work, works at a drug rehab centre, goes deep sea fishing and enjoys his golf. He is married with four kids.

Dr Jeanne Aspeling

Dr Aspeling graduated from the University of Stellenbosch in 2011. She has been treating patients in private practice since 2015. She has a special interest in women’s health. She lives in Cape Town with her husband and son.

Dr Melanie Kruger

Dr Kruger obtained her MBChB from the University of Pretoria in 2014 and currently works as a GP in Cape Town. Her special interests are in diabetes (having earned a CDE network accreditation), paediatrics, dermatology, family medicine and functional medicine.

Dr Michael Klos

Dr Michael Klos was born in Cape Town and obtained a medical degree from WITS in 2011. He has practised in various medical settings including emergency units, cruise ships, rehabilitation centres, GP practices and a government sector burns unit. His interests are Emergency Medicine and Dive Medicine. Michael spends his free time paddling in the ocean.

Dr Nomacete Tshume

Dr Tshume graduated from the University of Stellenbosch in 2011. She works in private practice and does escalations for ER24, ER locums, and conducts air ambulance transfers and commercial escorts. She is passionate about women's health and paediatrics.

Dr Nonhlanhla Mavuya

Dr Mavuya obtained her MBChB in 2012 from the University of Pretoria through a Cuba-UP training programme. She works as a medical officer in emergency medicine. She is based in Gauteng with her husband and daughter.

Dr Precious Mpanza

Dr Mpanza graduated from the University of KwaZulu Natal in 2013. She works as a GP in Hillcrest, Durban. Her special interests are in primary healthcare, women’s health and advocating against child sexual abuse.

Dr Samukelisiwe Nyamathe

Dr Nyamathe graduated from UCT in 2015. In 2018, she started an MSc in Child Health and Community Paediatrics. Her special interest is sexual and reproductive healthcare for adolescent girls and women. She is a GP in Cape Town.

Dr Schalk Burger

Dr Burger graduated in 1995 and has worked in private practice since 2000. His special interests are in rural medicine and providing medical care for people without access to adequate healthcare in Africa. He is married with two children.

Dr Thandeka Ngcongo

Dr Thandeka Ngcongo graduated from the University of Cape Town and works as a GP based in Mpumalanga. Her special interests are in women’s health and paediatrics. She is married with one daughter.

Dr Tsholofelo Makokwe

Dr Makokwe graduated from the then Medical University of Southern Africa in 1999. Her special interests are in mental health, and in the role of nutrition in health and wellbeing. She is a GP primarily based in Rustenburg, but also works in Gauteng.

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