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According to AfriForum, President Cyril Ramaphosa utterly failed farmers and meat consumers tonight by continuing to insist on a centralised procurement of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccines. This reaction follows Ramaphosa’s announcement during his State of the Nation Address (SONA) earlier this evening that the procurement of vaccinations will be facilitated centrally by government. 

AfriForum further warns that, despite Ramaphosa’s announcement that FMD has now been declared a national crisis, the intervention will be unsuccessful if carried out in a centralised manner.

“The country now needs decentralisation and privatisation, but the President is still persisting with a failed policy of centralisation – a policy that sits behind the problems in almost every area of ​​society,” explains Jacques Broodryk, AfriForum Spokesperson.

According to AfriForum, this approach confirms that the government is not committed to solutions but rather continued centralisation at the expense of the country and its people. “With the central procurement of vaccines, the government is blindly continuing on its path of destruction and is thereby complicit in the extensive crisis that is raging due to foot-and-mouth disease and will now sow even further devastation,” concludes Broodryk.

Issued by AfriForum