During the preceding blog post titled “The Coronavirus Plandemic” which was published on 28th October 2020, we looked at how this pandemic actually came about and how the elitist globalists have driven this socialist planned-epidemic which has since morphed into this global COVID-19 pandemic. As a result thereof, the world is restricted with lockdowns, social distancing, sanitising, mask-controlled and “second wave” fear-mongering that keeps the world population indoctrinated and manipulated by governments hell-bent on achieving their economic Global Reset and draconian totalitarian New World Order. They call it the new normal, when there is nothing “new” and nothing “normal” with socialist communism!
The NCCC
In the South African COVID-19 context, the ‘Wuhan, China coronavirus’ was first confirmed a case on 5th March 2020 when the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NCID) confirmed that a suspected case of COVID-19 had tested positive. The patient was a 38-year-old male who travelled to Italy with his wife as a part of a group of 10 people who arrived back in South Africa on 1st March 2020. Within ten days of the first ‘confirmed case’ a National State of Disaster was declared by the President of South Africa Mr Cyril Ramaphosa on 15th March 2020 under the Disaster Management Act, 2002 (Act No. 57 of 2002), hereinafter referred to as the Disaster Management Act and/or DMA.
In terms of Section 3 of the aforementioned Disaster Management Act the President Mr Ramaphosa appointed the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to administer the Act and be the Chairperson of the Committee in terms of Section 4(2) of the DMA. It is by proceeding as aforementioned that the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) was implemented and effectually came into operation in what would appear to be in terms of Sections 8 and 9 of the DMA. However, this does not appear to be correct as we will see hereunder.
Without delving too deeply into the various sections of the Act, the purpose of discussing and looking into the framework of the NCCC is to determine whether the practices of the NCCC and its cabinet ministers, including the South African President Mr Ramaphosa, were acting within the ambits of the Constitution of South Africa and upholding the citizens rights in terms of the Section 2 Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, Act No. 108 of 1996 (as amended).
On 23rd April 2020 the NCCC had “decided” to address the nation by President Mr Ramaphosa that a lockdown would come into effect. In terms of Section 27(1) of the DMA the State of Disaster had to be gazetted and in terms of Section 27(5)(a) the state of disaster duration “lapses three months after it has been declared.” What however causes much concern is the wording of Section 27(5)(c) which deals with extensions and reads as follows, “may be extended by the Minister by notice in the Gazette for one month at a time before it lapses in terms of paragraph (a) or the existing extension is due to expire.” In essence what this allows is that after the initial three months, the appointed NCCC Chairperson being Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has carte blanche without going to cabinet to extend the State of Disaster and the effective lockdown period indefinitely and after every monthly period as it appears to be the current practice. This practice amounts to nothing more than draconian totalitarian control of the citizens of the Republic of South Africa.
In an article published in the Daily Maverick on 15th June 2020 one can read extensively (or listen to) the article: Covid-19 lockdown regulations and National Coronavirus Command Council under legal scrutiny, again.[1] From the article that pertains to “lockdown decisions” undertaken, the following quote regarding the NCCC’s secrecy reads,
The record of these Covid-19 lockdown decisions had been requested for this court hearing – and refused. Or as the court papers said in criticising the applicants for going to court without the record of decision, “in any event, they would not be entitled to the minutes or documents of the Cabinet, including a structure of Cabinet, the NCCC”.
It is evident from the article that the NCCC were taken to the High Court in the Western Cape to argue the unconstitutionality of the NCCC organ, the lockdowns and unscientific regulations that have violated South Africans’ basic human rights. The writer of this blog is not writing here to look at jurisprudence or argue the merits of the court case. In a BusinessTech article titled: Ramaphosa on South Africa’s most controversial lockdown issues – including cigarettes and the NCCC [2], one reads,
Opposition parties have questioned the constitutionality of the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC), and how it appears usurp the powers of structures set up under the Disaster Management Act in determining government’s response to national disasters.
It has also been criticised for operating without any parliamentary oversight.
However, Ramaphosa said that the NCCC was not established in terms of the Disaster Management Act but instead forms part of Cabinet in an advisory capacity.
If Mr Ramaphosa is being ‘truthful’ about the NCCC being a “part of Cabinet in an advisory capacity” then we can understand that it is the “ANC Cabinet” he is referring to because the opposition parliamentary parties often challenge the NCCC’s decisions and regulations in court.
In an IOL[3] article we read,
In terms of this statute [Disaster Management Act 57 of 2002], the National Corona[virus] Command Council (NCCC) was brought into being and operation.
It is cogently submitted that the word “command” is highly problematic, since our liberal democratic Constitution of 1996 is premised not on the idea of “command”, but on fundamental concept and practice of the government by consent, which is the very essence of our liberal democracy.
Earlier it was unclear in terms of which sections of the DMA that the NCCC was established as mention was made to Sections 8 and 9 of Act No. 57 of 2002. However, in a Polity article dated 10th June 2020 by News24Wire we read extensively that the NCCC was not established in terms of any act. The original article is quoted here extensively:
10th June 2020 BY: News24Wire
The National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) was not established in terms of the Disaster Management Act.
This was revealed in President Cyril Ramaphosa‘s answers to Democratic Alliance (DA) MP Glynnis Breytenbach.
Breytenbach posed two written questions to Ramaphosa on the topic of the controversial NCCC, a body established after the declaration of a national state of disaster. Its legal standing has been questioned while lockdown regulations seemingly emanate from it.
In one of her questions, Breytenbach asked on “which existing Act of Parliament, regulation or provision of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa” did Ramaphosa rely on when he established the NCCC and from which existing Act, regulation or provision of the Constitution does the NCCC derive its power, responsibility, functions and duties.
Ramaphosa’s full response to this question read as follows: “The National Coronavirus Command Council [NCCC] – originally known as the NCC – was established as a committee of Cabinet by the Cabinet in its meeting of 15 March 2020.”
The NCCC faced criticism for taking far-reaching decisions related to the nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19 in the country. But the government changed tune, saying the NCCC did not take decisions.
Breytenbach also asked, in both questions, whether the NCCC had taken over or was duplicating the powers, responsibilities and functions of the Intergovernmental Committee on Disaster Management and the National Disaster Management Advisory Forum or National Disaster Management Centre. These bodies are established in terms of the Disaster Management Act.
“No,” was Ramaphosa’s full response both times the question was posed.
Breytenbach also asked for details on the powers, responsibilities, functions and duties of the NCCC and in which ways do these specified powers, responsibilities, functions and duties differ from each of the Intergovernmental Committee on Disaster Management, the National Disaster Management Advisory Forum or National Disaster Management Centre.
“The NCCC co-ordinates government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. The NCCC makes recommendations to Cabinet on measures required in terms of the national state of disaster. Cabinet makes the final decisions,” Ramaphosa responded.
However, the whole Cabinet serves on the NCCC, according to answers from Ramaphosa to Breytenbach and from [the] Minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu to Inkatha Freedom Party MP Narend Singh.
Breytenbach and Singh asked what the composition of the NCCC was.
Initially, all ministers except the following were included in the NCCC:
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Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane.
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Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Minister Thoko Didiza.
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Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi.
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Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe.
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Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan.
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Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Patricia de Lille.
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Small Business Development Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni.
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Sports, Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa.
“However, after two meetings of the NCCC, the president decided to invite the rest of the members of Cabinet, as it became clear that they too were crucial to the national response,” Mthembu answered to Singh.
“Other members of Cabinet were subsequently invited to attend NCCC meetings. It is supported by the Cabinet Secretariat and National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure [NatJoints],” said Ramaphosa.
The letters informing ministers of their appointment to the NCCC is attached to Mthembu’s answer. The one with the initial members is dated 18 March, the one informing the rest of their appointment the next day.
Neither letter mentions any legislation.
Mthembu said the NCCC was briefed by Health Minister Zweli Mkhize at each meeting, based on the advice of “Health Expects [sic]”.
“All NCCC matters that have police implications are referred to the Cabinet for decision-making,” Mthembu said.
EDITED BY: News24Wire
Personally what is mentioned here and what has gone on before, writer believes that the State organ has been implemented unconstitutionally and by the mere fact that they have issued draconian regulations that have violated basic human rights shows that peoples’ freedoms are being eroded and slowly taken away from citizens in the name of a ‘medical pandemic’. A vast majority of people are not as gullible as the powers that be think they are and they are slowly wising up to this socialist scamdemic. Beware of the toxic media that is acting as their agents by promoting this socialist narrative. COVID-19 is a means to implement the deep state economic Global Reset and the forecasted vaccines will be their ticket to dictate and manipulate citizens as they deem fit. The people need to take power back from the ruling government as the government officials are the employees of the people, they work for them, the people have placed them in office to work for them. When the government know their place and “fear” their employers the people, that is democracy. But when it is the other way around and the people fear the iron-fisted power-hungry government, then it is not democracy, but tyranny. Socialism that breeds communism is tyranny that empowers tyrants as the rulers of the people! The people of South Africa need to rise up in unity to put our tyrants on terms and if they do not tow the line they need to be fired! That is how a free market democratic republic operates!
The warning signs that the COVID-19 pandemic and the NCCC were up to no good and that the truth would never be known is when you examine the past political shenanigans of the NCCC Chairperson Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma who has had unfavourable governance that has preceded her chair appointment, like the R14.27million HIV/AIDS awareness programme contracts that were awarded by the Department of Health to Mbongeni Ngema, a “good friend” of Dlamini-Zuma’s, to produce a sequel to the musical, Sarafina![5] Investigations into Sarafina II revealed that Dlamini-Zuma had lied to Parliament about funding for the project coming from the EU, and had ignored proper bidding procedures.[6][5] Following criticism of the poor financial controls and commissioning procedures in a report by the Public Protector, the play was shelved.[7][8][9] Dlamini-Zuma was also criticised for supporting Virodene, a “quack remedy” for HIV/AIDS,[10] which was in fact a toxic industrial solvent rejected by the scientific community as ineffective.[11][12][13][14] With these previous misconducts on record, it is not rocket science that her chairing the NCCC has also brought about her questionable governing credentials! It is frightening to think that Dlamini-Zuma might have a say in the vaccines when one considers her track record of supporting dangerous toxic industrial solvent aka ‘poison’ as a solution for another virus – HIV/AIDS!
MAC
Another organ of the state that was set up as part of the NCCC is the Ministerial Advisory Committee (MAC) headed up by the Health Minister Zweli Mkhize. On Monday 13th April 2020 the Health Minister Zweli Mkhize was accompanied by various experts and the chairperson of the MAC, Professor Salim Abdool Karim, when they provided information to the public of South Africa setting forth the efforts to tackle the spread of COVID-19 and the way forward. The MedicalBrief report can be read Here.
The MAC’s responsibility is the obtaining of “experts’” information that would be passed on to the NCCC for “implementation” with regards to whether a lockdown is necessary and which regulations should be implemented based on medical and scientific advice, and any other medical advice that would be in the interests of fighting the “pandemic” and “saving lives”, as the COVID-19 narrative goes. At the initial briefing conducted by Abdool Karim, he was joined by the country’s top scientists, among others Professor Glenda Gray, the chair of the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), Professor Koleka Mlisana, a microbiologist from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and Professor Brian Williams, an epidemiologist formerly with the World Health Organisation (WHO).
News24 reported that Abdool Karim, whose expertise lies in the field of HIV Research and epidemiology, was the chair of MAC which at the time comprised of more than 20 professors, doctors and scientists who advised Mkhize and the National Command Council which was chaired by President Cyril Ramaphosa.
On 20th May 2020 MedicalBrief reports in an article: Medical experts rebel over SA’s ‘nonsensical’ lockdown strategy[15], which is quoted extensively hereunder; Note – the report by MedicalBrief has been shortened. To read the full MedicalBrief report go Here:
NCCC and MAC Members
The South African government is coming under strong criticism from medical experts on its own ministerial advisory committee (MAC), who say the present lockdown has “no basis in science” and should be ended, writes MedicalBrief. There is increasing concern that the extended lockdown is having a negative impact on the healthcare system, with non-COVID-related diseases not receiving attention.
MAC member Professor Shabir Madhi, who chairs its public health committee and immediate past president of the National Institute of Communicable Diseases, said the government is “ill-informed” and questioned who had told the president that South Africa was doing well. He said the MAC was not asked about measures involved in lifting the lockdown.
A Sunday Times report says some members of the ministerial advisory committee (MAC), the body headed by Professor Salim Abdool Karim that advises the government on its response to the pandemic, have supported their colleague Dr Glenda Gray, who has claimed the lockdown has no basis in science and should be called off. They said a false impression had been created about the level of consultation with scientists on the lockdown. Others questioned who is advising President Cyril Ramaphosa, calling the official risk-adjusted strategy a “catastrophe”.
But Health Minister Zweli Mkhize defended the regulations, though he conceded that there is not much more the lockdown can do to contain the disease. And business and labour have called for the easing of restrictions to be moved to level two as soon as possible.
The MAC scientists the Sunday Times spoke to reportedly all agreed that the lockdown should be lifted. The report suggests their claims that they are being side-lined tend to undermine the government’s insistence that its lockdown rules, and its exit from the lockdown, are always based on sound scientific advice.
The acting DG of the Health Department, Anban Pillay, said the government has “adopted almost all of the recommendations” they have made. But MAC member professor Shabir Madhi, who chairs its public health committee, said the government is ill-informed. He questioned who is advising the president that South Africa is doing well. He and others also said the MAC was not asked about measures involved in lifting the lockdown.
“Decisions about different lockdown levels and what should be allowed are not based on anything discussed by MAC,” he is quoted in the report as saying.
Gray, [MAC member and] chair of the SA Medical Research Council, said the strategy “is not based in science and is completely unmeasured” in remarks to News24.”We are seeing children with malnutrition for the first time (at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital). We have not seen malnutrition for decades and so we are seeing it for the first time in the hospital,” Gray said – she was not speaking on behalf of the MAC.
Gray said the evidence behind certain lockdown regulations was uncompelling. For example, open-toe shoes were not allowed to be bought or sold during the lockdown. “This strategy is not based in science and is completely unmeasured. (It’s) almost as if someone is sucking regulations out of their thumb and implementing rubbish, quite frankly.
“In the face of a young population, we refuse to let people out. We make them exercise for three hours a day and then complain that there’s congestion in this time. We punish children and kick them out of school and we deny them education. For what? Where is the scientific evidence for that?”
Initially, there was good reason to implement the lockdown to slow down the spread of the virus and buy time to ready the health system, and this was largely achieved, Gray is quoted in the report as saying. “One can argue whether the extension of the lockdown and these alert levels are justified, and I think we could argue that an additional two weeks in the lockdown may have supported the work that had been started and was critical. But the de-escalation, month on month, to various levels is nonsensical and unscientific.”
Non-pharmaceutical interventions should include targeted strategies to protect the vulnerable while those who would not be affected by the virus should be allowed back into society, she said. “With increasing knowledge of the virus, we now know that those most vulnerable are the elderly and those with comorbidities. However, people under 30, and school-going children are not.”
The MAC’s overall chairperson, Professor Salim Abdool Karim, said it was not true that the government had ignored advice on the issue. But, the report said, another member, associate professor at the Clinical HIV Research Unit at Wits University and CEO of Right to Care, Dr Ian Sanne, said the committee was not asked whether the lockdown should downgrade to Level 3, or any broader questions related to the issue. The committee was asked to advise on a risk-adjusted approach to focus on hotspots, a screening and testing strategy and, in turn, lockdown.
“We were asked about the approach, not the trigger levels and relationship to economic activity,” Sanne said. “We were informed that this would in future be utilised to determine the lockdown and economic activity in areas where the risk of COVID-19 is less. And that we agreed with,” he added.
Sanne said the extended lockdown was having a negative impact on the healthcare system. He added that normal, non-COVID-related diseases were not receiving attention.
According to the report, Sanne said there had been an increase in missed appointments by HIV patients of between 40% and 60% since the lockdown, and a similar issue was expected for diabetes and other illnesses needing chronic medication. There had been a substantive decline in childhood vaccination programmes, he said, which scientists believed would lead to a substantial outbreak of childhood diseases in the future.
MAC member, Professor Marc Mendelson, who is the head of infectious diseases and HIV medicine at Groote Schuur Hospital, is also of the belief that phasing out the lockdown is not a science-led approach. He said it was based on the experience of other countries’ attempts to flatten the curve but the thinking still posed problems, adding the only countries which successfully flattened the curve through lockdown were those who were able to swiftly test, trace and quarantine on a mass scale.
“That has not been possible in South Africa, despite predictions of up to 36,000 tests per day by the end of April that have not manifested. The only way to reduce the rate of infection is through interventions such as social distancing, handwashing, mask wearing and cough etiquette. Infections are inevitable. Sixty percent or so of our country will become infected over the next two years, but limiting the rate of infection is not going to come through lockdown,” Mendelson said.
However, a News24 report says the crackdown by the Health Department on dissent among the ranks of scientific advisers was swift. It says the advisers faced a hard-nosed dressing down from health officials during a heated MAC meeting on Saturday night. They were told to stick to what they know and leave the economic interventions to other departments and raise concerns directly with the department, not through the media.
Mkhize defended the government’s lockdown strategy and said no region or district in the country can claim to conform to the World Health Organisation’s six criteria to have restrictions lifted. He called the criticism “unfair”.
Leading the charge for the Health Department was Pillay, who reportedly told News24 after the meeting that the department and the committee were provided an opportunity to voice their views. “I only heard the explanation from Professor Gray and others… that they were concerned about the regulations… those economic regulations are not their mandate, responsibility or expertise, so I don’t understand why they would think they needed to be speaking out about it as MAC members,” Pillay is quoted as saying.
Pillay said he also raised the issue of why experts went to the media with their concerns instead of writing to the Minister first. Regarding the phased exit of the lockdown, Pillay said no scientific basis existed. “The idea is to ease out of the lockdown, the question is how quickly or how slowly should you ease – there’s no science on that, that’s based on your best judgement on how you think the sector should open up,” Pillay said.
Frustration is, meanwhile, building among scientists over the government’s apparent lack of willingness to make key, detailed COVID-19 data accessible ahead of a meeting of a MAC meeting. News24 understands that questions have arisen over the apparent stranglehold by the Health Department on access to spatial data (geo-located confirmed coronavirus cases), data around testing, screening, contact tracing and hospitalisation data – which includes availability levels of medical supplies and high care beds.
According to a member of the MAC – who spoke on condition of anonymity – several members of the advisory body have spoken out during past meetings against the apparent lockdown on data.
However, the report says Mkhize, in late night phone calls to reporters, defended the government and his department’s actions, denying that, among other things, information is being withheld. “I don’t know of anyone who has actually come to us and said give us this information and we refused,” he said, while pointing out that detailed numbers were verified and released by the department daily. “We have been so transparent and upfront with everything that we haven’t got anything to hide, we haven’t hidden anything. So, when we get accused sometimes, we don’t know how to deal with the accusation because we don’t understand what people are now trying to do,” Mkhize said.
The report quotes Professor Alex van den Heever, an expert in health systems and economics, as saying that the ability for citizens to take preventative measures to protect themselves from the coronavirus is being hampered by the government’s lack of transparency around COVID-19 data. Van den Heever questioned the rationale behind some types of data – particularly where cases were being found and at what rate, and other contact tracing and screening data – being kept locked away from public view, saying it hindered the individual’s ability to take informed steps to avoid direct contact with hotspots.
“We don’t know what they have done and where. And that means I can’t protect myself. A large part of managing an epidemic like this is you being able to take preventative action yourself, not just the government.
“The rationale offered may be that they don’t want people to face stigmatisation. But where you are not revealing the identity of the person, you are just showing the public that there is an outbreak in this local area. And then they may say they don’t want to cause panic.
“The absence of credible information is more likely to cause anxiety, uncertainty, panic and a loss of trust in the government – all things you don’t want in an epidemic,” he said.
News24 reports that so far, the Health Department has not released modelling data or projections, reports over progress made to identify hotspots through testing and screening, contact tracing, testing data per region, and testing data that shows the growth rate of the epidemic (rate of positive and negative cases found per tests done), as well as data that shows time delays and backlogs in testing.
On a daily basis, the department has simply released the number of tests done, the number of confirmed cases, the number of deaths and, more recently, a breakdown per province showing the total number of confirmed cases and deaths per province.
Siviwe Gwarube, the DA shadow minister of health writes: “Reports… that the ministerial advisory committee (MAC) which advises the Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize, is in disagreement with government strategy to deal with COVID-19 are deeply concerning. It is now clear that the government is reluctant to allow scientific findings to guide the country between the various levels of the strategy in order to save lives and livelihoods. While the Health response has been commendable over the past 7 weeks and the DA has supported the various interventions, we can no longer pledge support to a strategy that has no scientific basis.
“Ignoring expert advice which calls for responsible reopening of the economy and industry while capacitating the health system in order to deal with the inevitable spike in infections is wholly irresponsible and tantamount to gambling with the lives of South Africans who has pledged their support to government and their response to COVID-19. The fact that half of the four group leaders within the MAC now no longer support the government’s risk-adjusted lockdown strategy and how it is implemented through the regulations is indicative that something has gone seriously wrong. It is now clear that there is a chasm between what is being discovered and produced by scientists and experts and the strategy the South African government has taken.
“This is why the DA has repeatedly called for transparency in the data that the South African government is looking at in order to decide on the COVID-19 related responses. The secrecy that has characterized the issue of data and modelling is now being exacerbated by the advisors who have now broken rank.
“Minister Mkhize can no longer simply ask for blind support of his strategy when the team he leads is coming undone at the seams. He must now urgently take the nation into his confidence and explain the points of disagreement within his team; his submission to the National Command Council on dealing with the impending spike in infections; the data and modelling they are looking at in order to make health interventions and most importantly health system capacity to handle infections across the country. We need understand – per sub-district – bed capacity, ventilator availability and healthcare workers capacity and skills set.
“We no longer can run away from this pandemic. We must face it head on and ensure that the vulnerable to the illness, those who are unable to self-isolate and the general South African public is protected. Work must now be done to capacitate industries to be able to implement stringent health protocols for those that would be coming back to work.
“President Cyril Ramaphosa and his team can no longer avoid making the tough and necessary decisions. Millions of lives and livelihoods are now hanging in the balance.”
Whilst one can read the report here-above, the narrative is still flawed when it is evident that the present coronavirus COVID-19 aka SARS-CoV-2 has never been isolated and been scientifically determined as to its actual causes, other than to be a new strain of influenza that is being used to fear-monger the citizens in the name of a medical crisis! On 5th June 2020 when the South African “deaths recorded were 908”, I questioned the veracity of the deaths accredited to COVID-19 as the “virus” was as afore-stated never isolated to determine its actual causes, but “testings and certain deaths” were based on probable symptoms being: Fever or chills, coughs, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headaches, new loss of taste or smell, sore throat, congestion or runny nose, nausea or vomiting, and/or diarrhoea. In a phrase flu-like symptoms! These symptoms were being used in the absence of having hundreds, if not thousands, of coronavirus case studies to truly use to “diagnose the infections”.
It should be noted that the Department of Health’s Minister Zweli Mkhize would initially report daily the underlying illnesses like hypertension, diabetes, cardiac disease, low blood oxygen, asthma, fever, pneumonia, etc., of infected patients who had died of “corona related symptoms”! After this additional information was voiced on social media platforms and citizens started asking hard questions and discussing the same, there appeared immediately an about turn by Dr Mkhize and the Health Department who stopped reporting the underlying illnesses patients were experiencing at the time of death being the probable cause of those deaths. From that point onwards only national figures were given for: Tests Conducted, Positive Cases Identified, Total Recoveries, Total Deaths and New Cases. In time provincial statistics then became available giving the results for provinces. These statistical figure headings are also designed to keep people fearful as the media, i.e. internet, radio, television and newspapers, keep bombarding the public with an ever increasing “Positive Cases Identified” narrative that are recorded as perpetually increasing when in actual fact many of the “so-called cases” are actually false positive diagnoses! What the toxic media and fear-mongering reporting should focus on is dealing with actual “current cases”, but this will not fit with their narrative of keeping people imprisoned by fear, which incidentally is also a silent killer, as they are using the fear of the unknown and the fear of death to dictate and manipulate uninformed people into accepting lockdown isolation situations, which also compound the health crisis causing psychological illness, anxiety and depression. This can even develop further into chronic mental illnesses that can lead to suicide tendencies which is not saving lives, but causing further fatalities. To violate social beings, who we have been created by GOD to be, is in essence a crime against humanity and The Creator!
On 30th September 2020 in a follow-up MedicalBrief article titled Mkhize culls his critics in order to ‘strengthen’ the MACs – Medical Brief[16], which article is quoted hereunder, deals with the MAC scientists that were ‘culled’ because they spoke out against minister Zweli Mkhize and the Health Department’s/Government’s implementation of unscientific regulations and decisions taken. Whilst Mkhize tries to explain away why this course of action was taken it is evident to anyone with an IQ >20 that he is looking for “advisory members” who will fall in line with his and the government’s rubber stamping of their decisions whether scientific or unscientific.
All the most outspoken medical scientists serving on the South African government’s Ministerial Advisory Committee (MAC) on COVID-19 who found themselves at public odds with government actions have been peremptorily axed in what Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize describes as a “strengthening” of the committee, writes MedicalBrief.
Among those who on Friday last week received a one-paragraph letter telling them that their services were no longer required were Prof Glenda Gray, CEO of the SA Medical Research Council (SAMRC), Prof Shabhir Madhi, head of vaccinology at the University of the Witwatersrand and leader of SA’s first two Covid-19 vaccine in trials, Prof Francois Venter of Wits, and Dr Angelique Coetzee, chair of the SA Medical Association(SAMA).
All, at various stages, have been quoted in the media making assessments that could be construed as critical of government’s response to Covid-19, with News24 describing Madhi, Venter and Gray as “leading voices in criticising some of the regulations promulgated by government”. Among the issues with over which there has been vocal disagreement have been the effect of the hard lockdown, the closure of schools, taxi occupancy regulations, and the government’s secrecy over the scientific advice they had been given.
At least 14 of the 50 MAC members have been now told their services are no longer required. Mkhize is reported in the Citizen as saying that “the strengthened MAC will still maintain a degree of continuity, retaining many of the experts from the original clinical-biomedical MAC, including the incumbent chair Prof Abdool-Karim, Prof Marc Mendelson, Prof Sthembiso Mkhize, Prof Rudo Mathivha and Prof Nombulelo Magula, amongst others.”
The move came as a surprise. Initially, a fortnight ago, Mkhize announced that the MACs would be “pulling in” social and behavioural scientists because of “the changing pattern of the pandemic”, and that there would be a new MAC established to focus on vaccine development. Nothing was said about the planned removal from the MAC of some of SA’s top scientists.
In response to the Mkhize letter, Venter told News24 that it was done “with no warning or explanation … It is not like the epidemic is anywhere over. Government really needs to embrace transparency, and explain jetting in a crowd of WHO experts, an inexplicable curfew, or disbanding an expert panel that didn’t rubber stamp decisions made behind closed doors.”
SAMA’s Coetzee that while she understood the need to make the MAC smaller and have more involvement of people on the coalface – nursing groups and others – “the letter, arriving as it did out of the blue, was perhaps not the best way to go about the exercise of dissolving the committee”.
“One of the most important things is, if you look at another MAC, that it should be the public sector out there or the private sector advising the minister, and we should maybe have less people working for the [Department of Health] advising the minister,” Coetzee told News24.
It is no secret that Mkhize has been chaffing over MAC advisors differing in public from some of the more controversial aspects of the government’s handling of the pandemic. When Gray stepped out of line she faced a broadside from Mkhize and the Health Department.
Gray had, in her personal capacity, in an interview criticised the government’s harsh lockdown regulations as “unscientific” and claimed that childhood malnutrition cases were increasing at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital. This prompted a sharp rebuttal from Mkhize and a demand from the then acting Health director general, Dr Anban Pillay, who called her a “liar” and demanded that the MRC board investigate her conduct.
The MRC board initially apologised to the Ministry of Health and the MAC for Gray’s comments, saying it would institute a fact-finding investigation into the “damage” the comments may have caused. The following day MRC board said it had discussed the matter with Gray and found she had not breached any of the MRC’s policies.
The about-turn followed an outcry from public commentators, researchers, academics, and organisations, both locally and abroad. Daily Maverick described the response of the scientific community in backing Gray as “unprecedented”, with more than 300 leading scientists and academics, included deans of faculties, other MAC members, former Unisa vice-chancellor Barney Pityana and University of the Witwatersrand vice-chancellor, Prof Adam Habib, coming out in support of Gray.
In the Citizen report, following media speculation, Mkhize clarifies that the MAC has not been disbanded. “As we find ourselves in an extremely fortunate position of achieving effective transmission control, the true test lies in our ability to maintain low transmission rates. This requires a more holistic approach to case management, preventive measures and public policy.
“It therefore became necessary to strengthen the MAC on Covid-19 so that it falls in line with its mandate to advise on effective mechanisms for the prevention of onward transmission of Covid-19. Recognising that the composition of the current MAC was focused on a biomedical approach, the Minister has taken a decision to augment the existing committee with various other experts from different sectors. Also to influence the behavioural change that is required to mitigate against the spread of Covid-19.
“The reinforced MAC on Covid-19 will consist of bio-medical practitioners; clinical experts; specialists in ethics; the nursing profession; social scientists; researchers; and community leaders who will advise on interventions that should be considered in responding to the epidemic.”
Commenting in his Editor’s Notes in the Financial Mail, Rob Rose writes that the Health minister “would have you believe it’s just a miraculous coincidence that the three most outspoken scientists happen to have been excluded from the new MAC. It’s a curious move: as an acclaimed HIV/Aids scientist, [Gray’s] not only the president of the MRC, but in 2017 was also named one of Time magazine’s Top 100 most influential people.”
He quotes Gray as saying that her relationship with Mkhize has healed and that she’d “like to believe that excluding me from the new MAC isn’t an act of retribution. Since May, the minister and I have developed a great working relationship, and we even coauthored a scientific paper.”
The FM asked Madhi whether he believed his exclusion was retribution for being so outspoken, to which he responded “I would hope not — it would be very infantile if that were the case. But I take the government at its word, that it believes it is at a different stage of the pandemic, and needed a different set of expertise.”
“Some of us became a political embarrassment for Mkhize, since we didn’t just roll over and praise the government’s political decisions,” he told the FM. “They expected us to say: ‘Well done on the tobacco ban, well done on the booze ban’, and instead we pointed out how these decisions didn’t stack up scientifically,” he says.
Meanwhile, Business Tech quotes Prof Salim Abdool Karim as saying that if a second wave of infections hits South Africa in the same way it has hit European nations, tighter lockdown
restrictions will be back – but this time, it will be on a local level.
He said that the government is currently setting up task teams to handle this type of lockdown, should it become necessary. This would finally see the implementation of the “district model” of lockdown that was announced by the health department in May 2020, when the virus was still building its presence in the country. Under the model, the country is split into 52 different districts, with each being assessed on its infection level.
At the time, districts that were seeing higher than five new infections per 100,000 population were considered COVID-19 hotspots, and were to face tighter restrictions. However, despite the model being developed, it was never put into effect, with many businesses and provincial leaders arguing that it was unworkable due to the integrated nature of many operations. Every move to a different level lockdown has been implemented nationally, since.
Business Tech reports that according to Karim, the government is now better prepared to use the system. He is quoted as saying that the problem with district model before was that it was difficult to police. To determine hotspot areas, the health department will look at more than just infection rates, but will also factor in other things, like the availability of beds, he said.
Daily Maverick quotes Mkhize saying some semblance of calm has since returned to the country, but adds: “At this point it is still very far from being over. The numbers are still very high but we are over the surge. Now is the time to look back and say thank you.”
Mkhize warned that the risk of a resurgence of infections remained. “We are not out of the woods yet but (what we have done) remains a tremendous achievement. “In my own family 
several people got sick, we have lost some. All of us now know COVID-19 not to be a story on the TV in the media. We know it is a tragedy. It is a tragedy that has hit all of us. All of us have gone through that journey of pain, of anguish, of anxiety,” the minister said.
“There have been huge sacrifices. A lot of businesses have been damaged. A lot of people lost jobs. A lot of people went hungry. That is the cost of COVID-19 on top of those who had to be laid to rest.
“We are entering a new normal. We will have to reconstruct our lives … We saved as many lives as we could. Now we must save livelihoods,” he said.
Deputy director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine Professor Linda-Gail Bekker said she thought a vaccine would likely take another nine to 18 months “if all goes well”. “Perhaps it will be even longer for us to get it here in South Africa. Once it gets here, if it is efficacious and safe I think the uptake will be good. For the next six to 12 months, however, we will still have low level infections occurring throughout South Africa,” she said.
Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize looked like the voice of reason during the pandemic, and he works hard. But getting rid of advisers who only told him the truth is a sign of weakness, writes columnist Peter Bruce in Business Day.
Bruce, a former editor of Business Day, joins colleague Rob Rose, who in an editorial in last week’s Financial Mail was similarly scathing of Mkhize’s actions in dumping advisers who had been critical of the government’s pandemic policies.
Bruce writes that when you donʼt like the advice youʼre getting you just change the adviser. Thatʼs what health minister Zweli Mkhize did late last month to the Ministerial Advisory Committee (MAC), the body of experts, almost exclusively scientists and doctors, set up at the end of March to advise the cabinet on how to deal with the coronavirus.
Bruce notes that Mkhize had every right to change people around and there is serious debate abroad about the preponderance of medical advice ruling the lockdown roost in countries like Britain, at the expense of economics and sociological expertise.
Nonetheless, Bruce writes, the local MAC has more than 50 members but the three he chose to remove were also the most critical of the ultra-cautious way he has handled the pandemic in this country. “The three were Wits University‘s Professor Glenda Gray, celebrated HIV/Aids scientist and president of the Medical Research Council; Professor Shabir Madhi, arguably South Africaʼs best epidemiologist and a top vaccinologist; and Professor François Venter, a virologist with vast experience. They had all at some stage been publicly critical of the severity of the South African lockdown. Even Professor Salim Karim, head of the MAC, was saying six weeks into lockdown that it had served its purpose.”
Bruce points out that when one reads the likes of “solid health journalists like Katharine Child”, one has to wonder whether we have not all been well and truly conned. “Six – the number of state patients treated by Netcare,” she wrote last week, “during corona epidemic. 49.3% – hospital occupancy during the peak of the epidemic in July at all Netcare hospitals. 50% – how much surgery dropped in Netcare hospitals from April to August to prepare for COVID-19.”
Bruce writes that this tells one is just how easily even the public health service has handled this crisis. “Yes, there were some examples of filthy facilities being overrun. But, basically, we have seriously overreacted and citizens with other illnesses have suffered as a result.”
And, yes, while there probably will be a second wave, in all probability, it will not be as severe as the first and people who test positive in January [2021] are far less likely to die than if they had been infected last April.
Bruce writes that none of which is of the “slightest concern” to the ministers handling the crisis – chiefly Mkhize and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. “You can tell that by the absolutely ridiculous rules they have imposed on the tourism and air travel business since our move to lockdown level 1 last week.”
Conclusion
Despite the Minister of Health Zweli Mkhize and his Department of Health’s comrades keeping their coronavirus model that the NCCC and the MAC are using to tackle the COVID-19 plandemic a closely guarded secret, they are mere puppets that are being used by the globalist elites to further their New World Order by means of their socialist Great Reset plans. This coronavirus is nothing but an influenza aka SARS CoV-2. Can “COVID-19” kill? Yes, it certainly can, for even the common cold and influenza can be a killer. Despite the “flu-shot” vaccine being available people still die every year. The Department of Health’s own NCID’s Version 1.2 dated 6th June 2019, which updated version 2020pdf can be viewed Here, reports that there are on average 11 800 seasonal flu deaths in South Africa each year and in addition an estimated 47 000 episodes of influenza-associated severe acute respiratory illness of which about 22 481 result in hospitalization. Also, as many as 10million mild and 128 000 severe non-fatal influenzas cases also occur annually. It appears from reports emanating from the same Department of Health that due to lockdown there has been practically no influenza season in South Africa in 2020. In an IOL article dated 27th June 2020[18] we read:
As the nation enters its second month of winter, health officials have declared that the seasonal flu has not yet started.
Last year, patients started getting colds and the flu from as early as April.
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) recently explained that while the traditional winter flu season usually began to spike in the country around the middle of April, they detected two flu strains in the Western Cape by the beginning of last month only.
“There has been no influenza circulating from all other provinces in 2020,” it said.
The NICD said the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) season usually began at the end of February but, this year, it was barely detected by the end of last month.
This virus is another common pathogen that causes flu-like symptoms and is particularly fatal to children,
“In the previous three years, the average start of RSV season ranged between week seven to week nine, therefore the start of the season in 2020 is substantially delayed compared to previous years, possibly in part due to the national lockdown,” the NICD said.
Unless the NICD is omniscient like GOD Almighty, how does the NICD know that, quote: “There has been no influenza circulating from all other provinces in 2020.” It also appears that there have been no diagnoses and no deaths, whilst incidentally a flu-like coronavirus has taken its place. This is highly impossible as there have been many people that are known to have had the flu this year and were diagnosed as such by their doctors [Note: If you are one who has had the flu and would like to share, kindly comment hereunder]. Where problems arise is when a person catches a cold or flu and goes to the doctor, and the first thing the GP wants is for the patient to have a PCR Test[19] for the “COVID-19” instead of performing a normal inspection for the flu.
It should also be noted that Dr Zweli Mkhize and his MAC experts predicted on 20th May 2020 that there would be between 40 000 and 48 000 coronavirus deaths by November 2020. It appears that their model is a flawed one and that the Department of Health’s “experts” have fear-mongered with their statistical projections as the “coronavirus deaths” have been a mere 19 411 as at 1st November 2020. Taking into consideration that the statistics could well have been inflated by deaths from underlying illnesses and false positive PCR Tests, over the eight month period (March – November 2020) the deaths of 19 411 falls well within the estimated influenza deaths per annum statistics. Based on the pessimistic projection using their model of “48 000 deaths”, the same would equate to a 40.44% “successful prediction” 
which begs the following questions:
It has also been reported that the PCR Tests are not reliable. It has been previously qualified by the Nobel Peace Prize biochemist Dr Karry B. Mullis, PhD. inventor of the PCR Test, who incidentally died in August 2019 before the coronavirus plandemic, that it cannot be used reliably for diagnosing infectious diseases as one can detect any manner of debris from past infections, such as flu, and the results can be mostly false positives. Debris from previous illnesses remain in a persons system and can be picked up as a present infection. It has also been found that after amplifying a “virus” past the 36th cycle false negatives start appearing, and after the 40th cycle more positives start appearing and beyond the 60th cycle one gets positives 100% of the times of all persons tested. The reason that the virus has to be amplified is due to it being so minute and can only be properly diagnosed in amplified states. Therefore as the inventor said it is unreliable for diagnosing “virus infections.”
Besides all that has been said and done by the NCCC and MAC this coronavirus pandemic could have been a thing of the past already by applying Herd Immunity principles, but that would be too easy to overcome the practical-lockdown-imposed dictatorship by the ANC ruling party as there are sinister plans afoot. For one there is a Democratic Alliance article titled: DA exposes ‘top secret’ government document that suggests a massive ANC power grab[20] dated 6th July 2020 which can also be read at PoliticsWeb[20] and SA People News[20] websites. If that is not enough, then how about the Polity article by News24Wire dated as recent as 15th October 2020 titled: Mkhize wants powers to restrict citizens’ behaviour and movements beyond a state of disaster. No, these are not ‘Netflix Blockbuster titles’, but the sinister socialist commie agendas that are afoot. BE WARNED!
The final word concerning this post is to call all motivators of falsehood concerning the COVID-19 plandemic narrative and their deception thereof to come to REPENTANCE for their wicked and evil ways before it is too late! Deception is not from GOD, but from Satan the devil. A word of warning is that there is a Judgment Day where we all must appear before the Judgment Seat of the Lord Jesus Christ, for it is written:
10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. ~ 2 Corinthians 5:10 KJV
The Scriptures warn and teach us that no unrighteous person (1 Cor. 6:9) or liar (Rev. 22:5) will enter into the kingdom of GOD, but have their part in the lake of fire and brimstone.
We therefore call upon liars and deceivers to have their “… repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.”(Acts 20:21b KJV). This is your only hope!
Citations
[1] Merten, Marianne: Daily Maverick dated 15 June 2020 – Covid-19 lockdown regulations and National Coronavirus Command Council under legal scrutiny, again
[2] Staff Writer: BusinessTech dated June 2020 – Ramaphosa on South Africa’s most controversial lockdown issues – including cigarettes and the NCCC
[3] IOL
[4] News24Wire: Polity dated 10 June 2020 – Govt’s coronavirus command council not established in terms of any act, Ramaphosa’s answers reveal
[5] van Onselen, Gareth (8 April 2016). “Dlamini-Zuma and Sarafina II: The original Nkandla”. South African Monitor. Retrieved 21 April 2017 – Wikipedia.
[6] Daley, Suzanne (8 October 1996). “South Africa Scandal Over ‘Sarafina’ Spotlights Corruption in the A.N.C.” The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 21 April 2017 – Wikipedia.
[7] “The Sarafina II Controversy”. Healthlink.org.za. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 15 May 2011 – Wikipedia.
[8] “Zuma’s Response To Sarafina II”. Doh.gov.za. Archived from the original on 11 December 2013. Retrieved 15 May 2011 – Wikipedia.
[9] “Ngema blames Sarafina”. News24. 29 May 2003. Retrieved 21 April 2017 – Wikipedia.
[10] Campbell, John (18 July 2012). “Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and South Africa’s HIV/AIDS Past”. Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 21 April 2017 – Wikipedia.
[11] Dlamini-Zuma, the stern diplomat, Independent Online, 29 January 2012 – Wikipedia.
[12] Myburgh, James (18 September 2007). “The Virodene affair (II)”. Politics Web. Retrieved 21 April 2017 – Wikipedia.
[13] See also Virodene for further references – Wikipedia
[14] “One Zuma to another Zuma?” The Economist. 21 January 2017. Archived from the original on 14 February 2017. Retrieved 21 April 2017 – Wikipedia.
[15] Staff Writer: MedicalBrief dated 20 May 2020 – Medical experts rebel over SA’s ‘nonsensical’ lockdown strategy
[16] Staff Writer: MedicalBrief dated 30 September 2020 – Mkhize culls his critics in order to ‘strengthen’ the MACs – Medical Brief
[17] Bruce, Peter: Business Day dated 7 October 2020 – Mkhize getting rid of truth tellers ‘a sign of weakness’ – Peter Bruce – Medical Brief
[18] Dipa, Karishma: IOL – Saturday Star dated 27 June 2020 – Experts believe the lockdown has delayed the 2020 flu season
[19] Note – It is very expensive, in the region of R850.00 plus for a COVID-Test.
[20] DA exposes ‘top secret’ government document that suggests a massive ANC power grab: Issued by Cilliers Brink MP – DA Deputy Shadow Minister of Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs dated 6 July 2020 in News
Amended on 14th November 2020 at 15H53
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