“Why on earth would this be the case, if government has been negotiating in good faith for six months now?basket, knowing full well that this multilateral arrangement would only ever be able to provide 10% of our total requirements,” said Steenhuisen.
The party lamented that if government had really been in negotiations to acquire vaccines at scale for six months now, the public had a right to know why the negotiations failed and why, after six months, not even a single agreement was signed. “We also know from news reports that it was left to Johnson & Johnson, whose vaccine is partly manufactured locally here in SA, to reach out to the SA government in early August, months after most other high and middle-income countries had already secured their supply.
“And even then, the SA government cancelled the scheduled meeting and only got round to meeting them in September whereupon health officials showed no keen interest to secure supply. As a result, every single one of the 300 million vaccines put into vials in Port Elizabeth are set to leave our shores, if they haven’t done so already,” said Steenhuisen.
Steenhuisen said that the government needed to pull up its socks and be transparent with its citizens, in order for things to work. The DA would be submitting parliamentary questions and Promotion of Access to Information Act applications to establish exactly when the process began and what had been achieved so far.
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jsteenhuisen exactly!!! they’ve “secured” vaccines months ago already!!!
Ask some more! We want to know!
Come on CyrilRamaphosa CyrilWhereIsTheVaccine
jsteenhuisen why are you always a few steps behind. According to WHO the world will struggle obtaining enough vaccines for every body and to get herd immunity during 2021. Why did Business SA and Medical schemes managed to sort out payment of 14 Million vaccines? Where were DA?
jsteenhuisen Very sad.
jsteenhuisen SA, where corruption is KING !!!
And I see that Brazil said the efficacy of the Chinese vaccine is only 50%.
John what are doing to deal with the DA councilor that they still taking black people for granted calling blacks they dont know how to ready and write discriminating black using them to benefits themselves
Somewhere there appears to be a glaring inconsistency.😢
Basssss, what I you smoking?
jsteenhuisen MYANC uselessness. Simple.
jsteenhuisen I'm not sure, but our Minister of Health is now punting the benefit of a vaccune, and I'm stumped if I can find one.
jsteenhuisen They are all liars. But rather have Mr CR17s lies than anyone else from the government.
jsteenhuisen This ANC bashing strategy didnt help you much in the election, did it? Musi... Steenhuisen.. you all sound the same
If jsteenhuisen has a better solition y not do somithing This ignoramus comes everyday moan & bitch the same song ov'r v & ov'r & does sweet blow fuckall Dont know y MSM keeps feeding his media attention seeking habit Our_DA & its leader should put up or shut up Talk is cheap
jsteenhuisen Its in the ANC fabric, they're all liars, crooks, deceitful despicable people... shameful VoetsekANC
No value. Forever criticising. Nothing constructive. Not the ideal dynamics when you leading..... Our_DA
jsteenhuisen Don't you think instead of spreading Propaganda you may try and assist with vaccine information and rollout - people are not voting for you anyway
It's most probably the corruption mony required that's delaying the agreement
jsteenhuisen The government is not struggling to get vaccines or don't you listen
jsteenhuisen Why aren't we manufacturing our own Oh yes the ANC would loot that as well
jsteenhuisen 1500000 in Jan... what r u goddamn moaning about ....?..this is plainly STUPID