EFF leader Julius Malema this week encouraged the youth to get vaccinated against Covid-19, which is good, but he only went halfway in that he refused to say whether he had been vaccinated. His reason? He doesn’t want to be an “influencer of western vaccines”. He said getting vaccinated is a personal choice, which it is for now, but how can he, in good conscience, not throw his considerable influence behind the country’s effort to get as many people vaccinated as possible, as quickly as possible? The short answer to that question is politics, because he has long called for SA to import the Russian or Chinese or Cuban vaccine equivalents, well knowing we’re sourcing from US companies that developed them in record time...