- “If there is any vaccine that is deliberately intended to do harm to people, that vaccine must never see the light of day. I cry unto God to stop it.”
- South Africa’s chief justice Mogoeng Mogoeng has stood firm on his belief, despite authorities claiming he may be endangering people’s health by linking coronavirus vaccines to a “satanic agenda”.
Mogoeng’s remarks are the first since the outbreak of the pandemic that a senior judge has expressed his reservations
Since the move to host vaccine trials in Africa was introduced, anti-vaccine activists protested against Africans being used as test subjects.
However, South Africa is no stranger to controversies around medicine.
Two decades ago, the then-president Thabo Mbeki questioned whether HIV caused Aids, which has ravaged the country.
Mogoeng, who frequently displays his Christian faith while performing his duties, prayed at a public event on Thursday that people should be spared any vaccine that sought to “advance a satanic agenda of the mark of the beast”.
Addressing questions about this at a news conference on Friday to release a judiciary report, he said:
“If there is any vaccine that is deliberately intended to do harm to people, that vaccine must never see the light of day. I cry unto God to stop it.”
South Africa has suffered 22,700 deaths from Covid-19, by far the highest number on the continent. The current tally of infections has passed 845,000.
