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Vaccines: State control denies constitutional rights in SA The South African government’s efforts to secure and roll out Covid-19 vaccines have been riddled with problems. When the world was abuzz with news of vaccine purchases, the nation’s leaders were worryingly silent. When plans were eventually revealed, the strategy seemed to be full of unknowns. South Africans have endured lockdowns that have used some of the strictest measures in the world, to contain the virus. A second wave, fuelled by a new variant, discovered by scientists in KwaZulu Natal far surpassed the first. With another winter approaching, experts predict a third wave of infections. Meanwhile, South Africans are left to piece together shattered livelihoods and wait anxiously for a vaccination. The Government has made many excuses as to why the rollout has had a glacial pace. Private institutions have offered their facilities and services but the government insists on absolute control. Paul Hoffman of Acc ....
Government must urgently take cognisance of a constitut... dailymaverick.co.za - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailymaverick.co.za Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Daily Maverick’s regular columnist on matters legal, known only by his or her nom de plume “Professor Balthazar”, has strayed from the paths of constitutionalism in a column, published on 14 January, to which this response is akin to a trout rising to a well-cast fly on a tranquil pond. Here is the problem with the anti-lawfare attitude of the learned professor: when SA turned its back on the parliamentary sovereignty of the apartheid era and replaced its more odious features with a supreme Constitution which itself regards the rule of law as supreme, a fundamental change in the system of governance in SA was made (judging by the portrait of an ageing Einstein lookalike that Balthazar uses, it is safe to assume that these changes occurred long after the professor left law school.) ....