DearSA: The Public Participation Process Over Proposed Health Care Rules is a ‘Sham’ and ‘Irregular’ Editor Picks Highlighted South Africa by ANN Reporter - 9th May 20229th May 2022 More than 95% of 280,000-plus DearSA comments from members of the public have come out against proposed health care regulations. DearSA has written to the Director-General (DG) at the Department of Health informing him that the public participation process over proposed changes to health regulations is a ‘sham’ and ‘irregular’ after numerous participants received notifications that their emails had been deleted without being read. The DearSA campaign elicited an unprecedented level of public response, with more than 226,000 comments from South Africans (that figure has since risen to more than 285,000) – more than 95% of them opposing the proposed changes to health regulations. Allowing just 30 days for public comment on draconian changes in health regulations is unconscionable, given the regulations
Unemployment Is Socialism’s Product Highlighted Letter to the Editor Opinion Politics by Duncan du Bois - 31st Mar 2022 The hand-wringing over South Africa’s unemployment “ticking time bomb” (The Mercury’s front-page headline of March 31) overlooks the most basic cause of this tragic situation: socialism is the parent of unemployment. Thanks to their promotion of disinvestment, sanctions and economic sabotage, the ANC inherited an economy in 1994 which already had four million unemployed. Ever since then the figure has ballooned to way beyond ten million. Besides fundamental incompetence exhibited at every aspect of governance, deliberate marginalisation of the only sector that creates employment – private enterprise – has been core ANC policy. Driven by inflexible labour laws, enforced demographic representivity, radical economic transformation and now outright “majority rule,” as KZN Commissar Sihle Zikalala prescribes, the economic state of the country adheres
Why was South Africa chosen as a mRNA vaccine production hub? Editor Picks Highlighted Science by Shabnam Palesa Mohamed - 25th Mar 202225th Mar 2022 And what does it mean for drugs, politics and power in Africa? Dr WHO visits South Africa Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, visited mRNA vaccine technology transfer hubs in South Africa. He was hosted by Minister of Health Dr Joe Paahla, and Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Buti Manamela, showing support for a mRNA consortium backed by the WHO. On this WHO roadmap, Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Tunisia have also been targeted to receive technology to produce mRNA vaccines. * Technology transfer hubs are training facilities where specialised technology is established at an industrial scale for clinical development and/or production. kENUP seeks to bottom up the mRNA hub? Meanwhile, the British Medical Journal revealed that the kENUP Foundation, a consultancy hired by BioNTech,
Ironic Subtext Of Aid To Cuba Economy Highlighted Opinion by Duncan du Bois - 21st Mar 202221st Mar 2022 Whilst civil society groups opposing the ANC government’s donation of R50 million to Cuba for humanitarian relief are correct in claiming humanitarian relief starts at home, (The Mercury, March 18), the subtext of the issue is ironic for two reasons. First, for sixty years the people of Cuba have experienced an arrested state of development under socialism which has delivered equality in mediocrity and oppression. Yet ANC heavyweights regard Cuba as their preferred holiday destination and as a model socialist state which they seek to replicate in South Africa. But according to socialist propaganda, Cuba is a workers’ paradise. Why, then, is humanitarian aid required? Surely, the benevolent socialist system makes provision for every need? By its intention to donate humanitarian aid
Factors Protracting COVID Highlighted Opinion by Duncan du Bois - 14th Mar 202214th Mar 2022 It is a pity that in conceding that Covid-19 “will be with us for some time” (Mercury editorial, March 14) the reasons given for its protracted presence are disingenuous. In all the countries where most of the population has been vaxxed, Covid cases continue to spike. And the reason for that is obvious: contrary to the narrative of the WHO and all the jab adherents, it is the contents of the jab which is reigniting Covid in people. The latest celebrity to find that out is triple vaxxed former president Obama. Yet despite the shocking shortcomings and adverse effects of the vax campaign, the so-called experts of the WHO with whom Professor Abdool Karim is closely affiliated, ignore the contrary findings of
Assessing The Demise Of Covid Restrictions Highlighted Opinion by Duncan du Bois - 9th Mar 20229th Mar 2022 In the wake of the abandonment of Covid restrictions overseas, admissions that they were unnecessary and that the death data was exaggerated, the silence of the narrative adherents is deafening. The headline in London's Daily Mail on March 1 posed the question Covid critics have been asking for nearly two years: “So what was the point of masks?” The paper referred to a recent study which proved what the signatories of the Great Barrington Declaration (GBD) stated 18 months ago, meta-analysis at Johns Hopkins University and 400 studies at the US Brownstone Institute endorsed: there is no science in wearing masks as they do not inhibit viral transmission. The absence of masks at Biden’s State of the Union Address exposes the medical fraud
Credibility And The Vax Debate Highlighted Opinion by Duncan du Bois - 16th Feb 2022 At the risk of further upsetting the pro-vax lobby which illiberally opposes any further anti-vax submissions, the statements by Dr Ivo Reuning (The Mercury, February 16) cannot pass unchallenged. To dismiss the Epoch Times and World Net Daily as “extremist” without engaging with the information they carry is a cop-out. But then that is the debating style of narrative adherents. The other ploy is to dismiss a quote as being “out of context.” Trying to dismiss my RF Kennedy quote as such, shows that Dr Reuning is quite ignorant of the contents of RFK’s book. Without any source references, he claims millions have died from Covid and that the majority were unvaccinated. His claim is totally at odds with the recovery rate
Jabbing The Vax Information Bubble Highlighted Opinion by Duncan du Bois - 14th Feb 202214th Feb 2022 As these columns have witnessed previously, the standard canard to which adherents of the mainstream narrative resort when exposed to alternative facts and views, is to dismiss them as “right-wing and fringe.” Dr I Reuning’s response (The Mercury, February 11) is a case in point. Both the Epoch Times and World Net Daily are Christian publications whose information sources are honest and authentic and include networks like Associated Press and Reuters. UK Column News is another reputable source. The reason such information is ignored by the mainstream media is because it deviates from the anointed narrative. What detractors like Dr Reuning should be asking themselves is who orders the prescribed narrative and why. Robert F Kennedy Jr, who is not remotely right-wing,
Vax Questions That Need Answers Highlighted Opinion by Duncan du Bois - 9th Feb 2022 Citing death statistics of the unvaccinated without contextualising their age group and co-morbidities is hardly an endorsement of the efficacy of so-called vaccines (The Mercury, February 9). Dr Reuning inquires about my information sources. Regarding New South Wales, my source is the same government source he cites. Yet without being specific, he cites “a study” in France claiming the success of the jab and boosters. How does he account for Scotland’s Public Health Department stating that weekly deaths up until October 14 were 30% above the norm, yet 87% of the population had been vaxxed? On January 31, Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin enquired why there had been a tenfold increase in neurological issues amongst the US military and a spike in
What Is The Real Purpose Of The Vax Narrative? Health Highlighted Opinion by Duncan du Bois - 4th Feb 20224th Feb 2022 In view of the abandonment of Covid restrictions and mandatory jabs in the UK, Denmark, Mexico, Peru, Saskatchewan province of Canada and 13 states in the US, it is disappointing to note that the ANC government cravenly continues to apply the rapidly fizzling Covid/vax narrative and promotion of the jab. A meta-analysis conducted by scientists at Johns Hopkins University has concluded that the policies of lockdowns, social distancing and masks are “ill-founded” and should be “rejected.” Scientists not under the influence of the imposed narrative have repeatedly pointed out that because the apertures in the weave of masks average 80 microns in size, they do not repel the Covid virus, which is one micron in size. Although there is no excuse for
