ANC pushes for mandatory vaccines in South Africa
“The success of our economic recovery depends to a large measure on our ability to effectively manage Covid-19, as this virus is likely to remain part of our lives for the foreseeable future,” president Cyril Ramaphosa, who heads the African National Congress, said at a rally in the northern town of Polokwane on Saturday that marked the 110th anniversary of the party’s founding.
With the payments due to end in March, ANC ministers and academics have proposed the introduction of a permanent basic income grant in one of the world’s most unequal societies. The big sticking point is how it should be funded within a stretched national budget. Saturday’s anniversary event comes at the difficult time for the ANC, which is Africa’s oldest political movement and has ruled since South Africa’s first multiracial elections in 1994.
Zuma and other top officials were found to have been at the center of an orchestrated campaign to loot state funds, while the party was found to have benefited from the proceeds of corrupt deals.
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