Enforcing Covid-19 vaccination is like bringing back apartheid that enforced separation of people depending on skin colour, said the ACDP president Rev K Meshoe at the Union Buildings yesterday. When the University of Johannesburg was called Rand Afrikaanse Universiteit (RAU) during apartheid, he said, it had banned black students “who […]
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Meshoe calls on SA citizens to stand together against Covid “tyranny”
The ACDP will take to the streets – with or without the support of other parties – if the government extends the Covid-19 state of disaster again next month, said the party president, Rev Kenneth Meshoe in a simulcast interview yesterday. Speaking to Move One Million founder director Jarrette Petzer […]
‘Date in court’ to oppose vaccine mandate is coming, says SA National Christian Forum
More than two weeks after filing an application to the Constitutional Court for direct access to the apex court to apply for an urgent interdict to block the government from mandating Covid-19 vaccinations, the South African Christian Forum (SNACF) is still waiting for a court date, “We are still waiting […]
The case for religious exemptions to taking the vaccine
Advocate Nadene Badenhorst legal counsel for Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA) probes the issue of vaccine mandates and freedom of religion *Note: As an organisation, Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA) is not for, or against, vaccination but believes it is the right of every individual to choose for […]
Church group approaching ConCourt again in bid to block vaccine mandates
The South African Christian Forum (SACF) has been invited by the Constitutional Court to file a new urgent application to interdict the government from making Covid-19 vaccines mandatory and from depriving or limiting access or benefits to unvaccinated citizens, says SACF president Bishop Marothi Mashashane. “We are excited that the […]
The future of vaccine mandates will likely come down to Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett
Originally published in Vox. On October 29, Maine’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention will start enforcing a rule requiring all health care workers in the state to be vaccinated against Covid-19 — unless the Supreme Court intervenes to stop it. Does v. Mills is the first significant case to reach the justices […]