BREAKING: A GOVERNMENT POWER GRAB IS HIDING BEHIND A VACCINE “MIRACLE.” While farmers face RUIN, officials are seizing TOTAL CONTROL.
Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen stood in a lab this Friday, holding vials he calls salvation: South Africa’s first locally-made foot-and-mouth disease vaccines in over two decades. The initial batch is a mere 12,900 doses. Farmers are calling it a DROP IN THE OCEAN of crisis.
This isn’t just about science. It’s about POWER. The department is using this “breakthrough” to justify a CRACKDOWN, rejecting calls for private companies to help import more vaccines. They label these proposals “reckless,” pushing for a strict, state-only vaccination program. They promise 200,000 weekly doses by 2027. But farmers are losing everything NOW.
Who pays the price? The people who feed us. The minister admits to the “severe emotional and financial toll” on farmers, watching their lives disappear. Yet his solution is more government control, not more solutions. Business group Sakeliga is threatening LEGAL ACTION, accusing the minister of hiding the legal basis for blocking private aid. They warn this stance is unlawful and will DESTROY livelihoods.
Why the lockdown on vaccines? The department claims only state control can win back vital export status. But critics see a familiar pattern: failing infrastructure, empty promises, and now, a potential “state of disaster” declaration to unlock emergency funds and more control. They warn the new 10-year plan will repeat the SAME failures.
The government finally makes a vaccine after 21 years of failure, and their first move is to ban anyone else from trying to help.
Your food security is being held hostage by bureaucracy.
Edited for Kayitsi.com
Author: Kayitsi.com
