{"id":519651,"date":"2021-12-08T10:17:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T15:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=519651"},"modified":"2021-12-08T10:17:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T15:17:37","slug":"south-africa-looming-vaccine-revolt-lockdown-division-could-destroy-the-fragile-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=519651","title":{"rendered":"SOUTH AFRICA &#8211; looming vaccine revolt &#8211; Lockdown division could destroy the fragile nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>South Africans will find out this week whether President Cyril Ramaphosa will\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/0cea5e3f-d4c4-4ee2-961a-3aa150f388ec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">consign<\/a> 60% of them to proxy house arrest by restricting public spaces to the Covid-19 \u201cvaccinated\u201d. It is a fraught decision; one that sets the terrifying powers of Big Pharma and the new class of warrior-scientists against African reality. It also risks the possibility of sparking one of the bitterest of vaccine wars.\u00a0Only 40% of the South African population has been jabbed against Covid \u2014 a slow take-up which is euphemistically described as \u201cvaccine hesitancy\u201d. It is anything but: it is enraged rejection.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are a number of reasons why it is so hard to get South Africans to take the\u00a0<em>umjovu<\/em>, the injection: appalling technical management of the outbreak, a prevailing scepticism towards science, wariness about the Government and a wide-spread apprehension by the poor and marginalised that this is at best another form of repression and at worst witchcraft. It is a dangerous brew in a country already in a state of great political, social and economic instability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/2021\/12\/south-africas-looming-vaccine-revolt\/\">https:\/\/unherd.com\/2021\/12\/south-africas-looming-vaccine-revolt\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africans will find out this week whether President Cyril Ramaphosa will\u00a0consign 60% of them to proxy house arrest by restricting public spaces to the Covid-19 \u201cvaccinated\u201d. It is a fraught decision; one that sets the terrifying powers of Big &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=519651\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=519651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=519651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=519651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=519651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}