DURING the colourful pomp and ceremony decked out to visiting French President Emmanuel Macron, his host President Cyril Ramaphosa paraded his Cabinet ministers – including his under-fire Health Minister Dr Zweli Lawrence Mkhize, who side-stepped being quizzed by the media about how his close comrades and friends picked up a whopping R150-million Covid-19 and National Health Insurance irregular procurement deal.
The European Union leader was at the Union Buildings last week, to also discuss, among major bilateral deals, the Paris-Pretoria protocol on how France could help SA and Africa get out of the vaccine shortage cul-de-sac.
As France and SA discussed global responses to the Covid-19 linked challenges of the economic, health, research, manufacturing challenges, and vaccine nationalism, and temporary waiver of patents and copyrights in the manufacture of the vaccine, the World Health Organization reported that the coronavirus had claimed 3,540,437 lives, and 170-million people have been infected and
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