Sakeliga's Le Roux, Lamberti present the case AGAINST mandatory Covid-19 vaccines - "a slippery slope"

Loading player...
A forthright discussion on mandatory vaccines with the Sakeliga duo of CEO Piet le Roux and chief economist Russell Lamberti explaining why forcing jabs is wrong. Their argument is premised on the basis that a mandate is disproportionate to the risk and unjustified on the grounds that very few people get mortally ill from Covid-19 - and that SA already has extremely high natural immunity to the virus. They also argue that the ANC government's track record suggests the project will become a honey pot for the corrupt, while also putting the country onto a slippery slope towards greater state control and authoritarianism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
1 Dec 2021 7AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

Other recent episodes

Neal Froneman on his bid to bring Formula One back to South Africa

He turned around mines others had written off and built Sibanye-Stillwater into a global giant. Now Neal Froneman wants to bring Formula One back to South Africa, on 600 hectares of Swartland farmland rather than at Kyalami. In conversation with Alec Hogg, the Blue Mountain Racing chairman explained why he…
27 Sep 11AM 43 min

Helen Zille on Joburg, coalitions and the price of power

She said she hadn't exchanged a single word with the ANC about a post-election deal. Helen Zille then told Alec Hogg who she thought was talking to them. The DA's Johannesburg mayoral candidate took on Corné Mulder's claim of a backdoor ANC pact and compared Gayton McKenzie's Patriotic Alliance to…
25 Sep 12PM 34 min

Why Jakkie Cilliers (ISS) guarantees Africa in 2050 will be far more stable than today

At a time when news headlines across Africa highlight political friction, economic distress and security concerns, a guarantee of better times ahead may sound almost provocatively optimistic. Yet Dr Jakkie Cilliers, founder of the Institute for Security Studies and head of its African Futures and Innovation Programme, bases that guarantee…
25 Sep 5AM 35 min

Andy Calitz on Eskom, the job he didn't get, and what came next

He was on the shortlist to run Eskom and lost out to André de Ruyter. Years later, Andy Calitz, who ran South Africa's transmission grid before a career that took him from Shell to Gazprom's control room and the helm of LNG Canada, still thinks about it most weeks. In…
25 Sep 3AM 55 min