South Africa
The majority of retail pharmacies are independently-owned pharmacies.
Recent legislative reform has opened pharmacy ownership in South Africa to individuals and companies other than pharmacists, for example supermarket chains. However, in order to retain professionalism, pharmacists must still own a significant percentage of the pharmacy and operate these pharmacies in person.
South Africa also has active Pharmaceutical Society of Southern Africa and South African Association of Hospital and Institutional Pharmacists membership organisations.
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