Sona: Ramaphosa’s promised vaccine research, mRNA hub plans dead in the water

Champions of inclusive, equitable and quality public health care have come down hard on President Cyril Ramaphosa, pointing to grave failures in the entire system despite promises of improvement. As South Africans await yet another batch of promises in the State of the Nation Address (Sona), the Health Justice Initiative has called out the president on his failure to deliver on his last year’s promises. The advocacy group said in his last State of the Nation Address, Ramaphosa hailed ‘significant progress’ towards ‘manufacturing vaccines’ but it was unclear what new generation vaccines have been produced in the past 12 months…