All the way from Darling, my dear: Tannie Evita gets her vaccine jab [watch]
SA s favourite tannie, Evita Bezuidenhout, was among the first in the Swartland sub-district of the Western Cape to receive the vaccine jab.
Tannie Evita gets her COVID-19 vaccine jab
Tannie Evita – who turned 85 on 28 September 2020 – got her COVID-19 vaccine at the Wesbank Community Hall on 1 June 2021 during a ceremony marking the opening of the first public vaccination site in the Swartland sub-district.
Just a small prick
“The whole point was to say to people of my age, don’t be nervous…it’s just a small prick,” she said according to
By 31 May, 490,680 people had received their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine. And more than 3.1-million people have registered on the government’s Electronic Vaccination Data System. Of these, 2.2-million are people over 60 and the remaining 970,448 are healthcare workers.
Meanwhile, Tannie Evita Bezuidenhout was among the first in the Swartland subdistrict of the Western Cape to receive a Covid-19 vaccine jab.
Before entering the Wesbank Community Hall in Malmesbury, she said: “I am so relieved to be here to receive my vaccine, but I have a smartphone. I have a computer. I have internet. I have a car. I am 85 and I still drive myself. But many, many of my generation and younger don’t know how to register.