POLITICAL PARTIES & JOURNALISM DISTRACTING US WITH HALF TRUTH NARRATIVES ABOUT ESKOM & DIESEL

📍If Eskom burnt R65billion diesel over 5 years - R13 billion a year to keep the lights on
📍Why don’t they ever tell us how much Eskom burnt for renewable energy (RE) solar and wind IPPs?

📣Let’s see why👇🏽

1️⃣ In a landmark judgement on 1 December 2023 when the High Court dismissed the DA’s case claiming that the electricity price hikes was extortionate, the judge accepted this explanation from NERSA and ESKOM and there’s no mention of diesel

PROOF THAT ONCE THEY HAVE OUR VOTES THEY USE IT TO PASS LAWS TO APPEASE THE WEST & TO MAKE WAY FOR PRIVATE SECTOR PROFITS

💥 PARLIAMENT PASSES THE CLIMATE CHANGE BILL on 25 April 2024 and dead silence from political parties and journalism

🇿🇦 ALL 9 PROVINCES voted in favour of the bill
⁉️The ANC, DA, EFF, IFP, ACDP, GOOD, ATM, FF+ supports the bill. ⁉️Including ActionSA, BOSA, Rise Mzansi, PA,

⚠️ Support for this bill is the complete disregard for our energy security needs and we will continue to see high levels of loadshedding, and extortionate electricity price hikes.
We will see manufacturing suffer.
We will see coal power plants shut down.
We will see industry like steel shut down.
We will see water tariffs soar.
We will see mandatory vaccinations.
We will see them ban curtains foods.
We will become a broken nation if we do not have energy, water and food security.
Our primary security need is energy and that can only be provided with a combination of baseload nuclear, gas and coal with some solar and wind.
1️⃣ The President must still sign the Climate Change Bill for final approval.
📣 ANC supporters- did your president inform you of this?
📣 Are you going to vote for a party which prioritizes the climate change agenda of the western nations to advance the business interests of renewable energy?
📣 Or do you want a party that puts the energy security needs of South Africans and the country first? If yes, don’t vote for the ANC if Cyril signs this bill

🇿🇦 JOURNALISM | AGAIN!
Note the name of the Journalist and the conflict of interest will be revealed at the end of the thread.
Note the narrative:
- must decommision coal
- coal is bad
- pushing renewables

OH MY GOSH! Now that I have done my own reading and educated myself I am horrified to read that this CEO of Eskom called for the aggressive phasing out coal power in favour of renewables - RE IPPs Solar & Wind - which has been the cause of extortionate electricity price hikes and loadshedding!
⚠️How did our government and business and people and UNIONS let this happen! 1⃣ We have laughed at Gwede Mantashe, but now that I am a more informed citizen I can assuredly say that what he is quoted as saying - IS RIGHT and IS FOR THE BEST INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE and THE COUNTRY!
‼️FOCUSED
‼️FUNDED
‼️AND PLANNED MAINTENANCE OF EXISTING POWER STATIONS

🇿🇦 Team Journalism is begging to save them because they allegedly saved us.

📍But where was journalism when the African Union adopted the African Medicines Agency Treaty - The AMA Treaty in 2019?

📍Why are there no articles, no news reports of the AMA treaty, collaborators and funders?
1️⃣ Why does journalism condemn the NHI Bill and remain zipped about the African Medicines Agency Treaty - The AMA Treaty?
📍Are we to assume they didn’t hear / read of the committee meeting in Parliament?

https://twitter.com/vimleshrajbansi/status/1779814649354936609

‼️Journalism 📍Health | African Medicines Agency (AMA) 🇿🇦

I was fact checking this DM article written in Dec 2023 and here’s what I found:

😱 The brainchild of the African Medicines Agency (AMA) are not “three bold African women” so why will DM not fact check before publishing?

😱 “The Institution they set out to create” is incorrect because the AMA is the brainchild of complex collaborations of Western & European institutions

⚠️ Read the entire thread to grasp the extent of the “brainchild” of the AMA and AMA Treaty
1️⃣ The brainchild of the African Medicines Agency

Mrs Chimwemwe Chamdimba, said,
“The African Medicines Agency has been up and running since 2009 when WE started the African Medicines Regulatory Harmonisation Initiative.” 

❌ False: this conveys the message that the 3 pioneering Black women are the founders of the AMRH but that isn’t true.
❌ Why will the facts be omitted in this article?
❌ What message is being conveyed with 3 bold African Women to promote the African Medicines Agency?

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South Africa | If you value your right to make informed decisions about your and your children’s healthcare choices and medical treatment then it is time to make some noice and speak out about these unwarranted charges against Dr. Chetty.
📣 His 8th day protocol saved thousands of lives.
📣 Do you hear any patients suing Dr. Chetty for the 8th day protocol?
📣 Why then is the HPCSA charging him?
📣Who will this action protect? The patient or the industry? 1️⃣ Do you know that SAHPRA & the NDoh withheld information from us when they approved and recommended the Covid vaccine?
📣 They signed confidential contracts and was aware that the efficacy of the vaccine was unknown
📣 They failed to inform us that the vaccines had unknown side effects some of which could be severe were also unknown

🇿🇦😱 SHOCKING | We have people starving and living in abject poverty but have you heard of the Life After Coal Campaign?

🫤 it’s a joint environmental justice campaign by:
💥Earthlife Africa (“ELA”),
💥groundWork (“gW”)
📍this one Rise Mzansi is collaborating with‼️
💥and the Centre for Environmental Rights (“CER”) 2️⃣ On our behalf, The Life After Coal Campaign has submitted its comments on the draft integrated resource plan (IRP) 2023 - Our energy security plan.
📣 How did they obtain our vote to speak on our behalf?

‼️ In their submission - Wait for it - They highlight the fundamental flaws in the draft IRP:
💥to supply cost effective electricity
💥 and energy security 💥and South Africans constitutional rights to live in a healthy environment 🤔

🚨 Gee whizz! Another one driving a narrative without evidence and by evading the evidence.

1) 7 April 2024
He writes without providing any reference to evidence that this superpower in the north WILL meddle in the election
📣 Really, we must believe him because he is a super editor 🤣 2) He then writes that the superpower from the West are interested in the elections too,
📣 oh but wait he writes in their favour and states,
“but have no obvious assets on the ground with which to manipulate it”
‼️Does this super editor read the news?
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Speaking of Funding initiatives for Climate Change & Early Childhood development in South Africa?

📣 Have you heard about IPASA?
📣 IPASA’s current initiatives are Early Childhood development and climate change.

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A) IPASA is a membership-based organisation for philanthropists in South Africa:
📌committed to building connections with key stakeholders in the philanthropy sector
📌 to help catalyze transformation both within the sector,
📌 and across the country.

👋📗Mashaba's Words have no Actions | INSOURCING

In 2019 when Mashaba resigned from the DA as Mayor of the COJ he said,
"I have had to deal with people who did not want me to implement the insourcing program that has benefitted over 7000 families and contained contractual costs, merely because it was not a DA policy"

📢 It means the DA was opposed to insourcing in the COJ and Mashaba advocated for insourcing coz it benefitted 7000 families & saved money by cutting out the cost of middlemen. 📍📗But in March 2024 ActionSA In TSHWANE voted with the DA against a motion brought by the EFF for the municipality to insource security guards.
ActionSA is in coaltion with the DA in the city.

📢By voting with the DA does it mean that since ActionSA is in the DA's MPC Mashaba's party will vote for the DA's policies, and therefore opposed the insorucing of security guards?
📢 Or, that ActionSA will vote with the DA on policies without considering what's best for state employees and the costs?

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What a joke. I will give you just 2 examples of how the DA candidates in parliament do NOT champion citizens needs in Parliament, instead assess for yourselves if they are deployed to lobby to push through health and energy policies which they agree to in secret meetings with business, industry and foreign governments. ⬇️ 📘 HEALTH - AMA TREATY⬇️
The DA supports the African Medicines Agency Treaty - AMA Treaty.
- Have they explained the ramifications of this treaty to citizens? NEVER

https://x.com/VimleshRajbansi/status/1753375136999170470?s=20

📣💡📣💡📣💡📣💡You want the source that confirms IPPs are expensive and unaffordable 👇🏽
📣We know that IPPs accounted for 12.81% of the 20.5% electricity tariff hike in 2023.
📣 We know that the IPPs tariffs are an all in pre-agreed tariff which includes costs of construction, operations, maintenance and management 👇🏽
📣💡 The IPPs charge an all in pre agreed tariff and owns the assets
📣NERSA allows for Eakom to transfer 100% of IPP costs to us customers by increasing the electricity tariffs👇🏽

🌍Water security policies | Who we gonna call to rescue us from closed water valves? 💦

🇿🇦 Why did News24 report that Joburg’s water outage is more than likely not the last one?

📣 Is it because someone knows who will turn of our water valves for the next water crises? 🧐🤨 👇🏽





📣 💦 Do you know that The African Development Bank Board (ADB) approved a NEW WATER STRATEGY for INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT OF AFRICAS WATER SECTOR - 2021-2025?

💧The 5 year strategy was approved on 17 November 2021, and aims to increase water security in Africa

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🔰 Pravin Gordhan | What was operation checkmate?

Did you know that in March 2017 President Jacob Zuma recalled Pravin Gordhan from an investor roadshow to London & the US because Zuma alleged that he had an intelligence report that Gordhan & Jonas were using the trip to mobilise prominent people in London and the US to overthrow the state?

Gordhan travelled with business leaders and trade unionists.

Gordhan was subsequently fired as Minister of Finance.
📣 Sources had said that Zuma allegedly informed the top six ANC leadership on Monday evening after he had already instructed Gordhan to return and the mission of government officials‚ businessmen and labour representatives to abort the week-long activities “

👋 🚨South Africa | ENERGY SECURITY| CIVIL SOCIETY BLOCKING NATURAL GAS POWER❗️❗️❗️

🔰What is this Centre for Environmental Rights (CER) who on behalf of Groundwork & South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA) are call themselves “civil society” and are going to court to block this 2000MW gas power plant in Richards Bay?

📣 We have questions:

❗️ Did we vote for this organization to represent us in our energy planning decision? To block any form of energy that may impact our energy security? Same as some NGO’s & NPO’s blocked nuclear? Are they the same group?

❗️Did they get our permission to act on our behalf as civil society? Where is the record of this?

❗️Did they hold public meetings?

❗️Did we obtain an independent opinion? 👇🏽

1) 🚨Remember what we saw with nuclear power.
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📣 ❗️Who is funding this group and are there any conflict of interest? Eg. Is there any affiliation with the private sector renewable energy, coal, or nuclear industry who are opposed to gas only because it serves their business and not our energy security?👇🏽

👋🚨 AMA TREATY | UPDATES

1. The headquarters of the African Medicines Agency (AMA) has been selected by the AU to be based in Kigali, Rwanda.

2. On 12 Feb 2024 President Kagame met with both Prof Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the WEF and Dr Tedros, DG of the WHO on the sidelines of the World Governments Summit (WGS) held in Dubai from 12-14 Feb 2024.

3. When Dr. Tedros met President Kagame at the WGS:
- He congratulated him for kicking off the first ever end-to-end mRNA vaccine production in Africa,
- and said they discussed the importance of the #PandemicAccord for global health security;
- as well as the African Medicine Agency (AMA) and he assured Kagame of his support.

@NickHudsonCT @jsteenhuisen @HermanMashaba @A_C_D_P 1. Ramaphosa’s PCC is advocating to shut down coal in favour for solar and wind. Look, of the funders to Ramaphosa’s PCC is GEAPP (Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet)
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2. Is there any conflict of interest that Ramaphosa’s PCC received funding of R17,587,00 from GEAPP which is an alliance of philanthropy, entrepreneurs,
governments in emerging and developed economies,
and technology, policy, and financing partners with a a common mission to support developing countries’
shift to a clean energy?

🔖📕Another R1.7 billion (100 million Euros) for the African Union Development Agency - New Partnership for Africa’s Development (AUDA-NEPAD) for the African Medicines Agency (AMA) and the AMA Regulatory Initiatives | AMA Treaty🇿🇦

❗️Did you know that in addition to the R897 million funding the AUDA-NEPAD received from the Gates Foundation a further 100 million Euros is being mobilized by the Gates Foundation (GF), the European (EU), European Medicines Agency (EMA), including Belgium, France & Germany over 5 years
- To support the AMA and other African medicines regulatory initiatives at regional and national levels.
- This grant comes as a strong endorsement of the work of the African Union Development Agency-NEPAD (AUDA-NEPAD) to strengthen medicines regulators and improve health security on the African continent.

🆘 How much influence do the funders have over African medicines regulators and National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) like SAHPRA in South Africa with this additional funding❓
- SAHPRA is an entity of the National Department of Health (NDoH) created by the government
- SAHPRA manages and enforces regulations related to health products, including overseeing their manufacturing, distribution, and conducting clinical trials in accordance with national health policies.
- If Parliament ratifies the AMA Treaty, SAHPRA will be obligated to manage and enforce regulations outlined in the treaty and this would involve complying with standards influenced by various international stakeholders and funders.
- SAHPRA is a also receipient of $900,000 funding from the GF

⬇️🔴In my analyses of the GF committed grants data base a week ago I shared that the African Union Development Agency - New Partnership for Africa’s Development (AUDA-NEPAD) based in Gauteng had received substantial funding (R897million) and referred to a history of a planned future of for medicine regulation in Africa, the African Medicines Agency (AMA) and subsequent to this the analyses of the AMA Treaty tabled at Parliament and yet to be approved.

The Gates Foundation announcement for the stated purpose of the 100 million euros:
❗️To strengthen regulatory capacity to improve health security in Africa, including through the expansion of local manufacturing of quality, safe, efficacious, and affordable medicines, vaccines, and other health tools.
❗️To foster collaboration and sharing of technical expertise between the EMA and the AMA and support several African national regulatory authorities (NRAs).
- The EU will support the AMA with a comprehensive package of actions to strengthen its capacity, alongside regional and national initiatives to strengthen regulatory capacity in countries such as Rwanda, South Africa, Ghana, and Senegal, together with France, Germany, and Belgium.
- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is likewise providing funding towards the AMA, the regional economic communities (RECs), and certain NRAs, as well as to various technical partners.

🔴 Melinda French Gates, co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said:

“Every person deserves access to vaccines and medical treatments, and the assurance that they are safe and effective. This important effort will accelerate equitable access to quality lifesaving health innovations
in the communities that need them most.”

🇿🇦📕END📕🇿🇦

❗️References in comments below❗️ 1⃣ Reference: 15 February 2022
Ahead of EU–AU Summit, African Medicines Regulators Receive Boost of More Than 100 Million Euros from Team Europe and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
In a strong endorsement of the work of the African Union Development Agency-NEPAD (AUDA-NEPAD) to strengthen medicines regulators and improve health security on the African continent, the European Union (EU)—including the European Commission, the European Medicines Agency (EMA), and EU member states Belgium, France, and Germany—and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) will mobilize more than 100 million euros over the next five years to support the recently established African Medicines Agency (AMA) and other African medicines regulatory initiatives at regional and national levels.

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👋📕The Gates Foundation (GF) has committed BILLIONS in grants to various institutions primarily focusing on Global Health, Development, Policy & Advocacy, and gender equality:

1⃣ South Africa received $910 million (R13.3 trillion) between 2008 and 2023, with $581 million committed during the period from 2008 to 2023.

2⃣ The African Region received $28 billion from 1997 to 2023, with $9.8 billion committed from 2018 and 2023.

3⃣ The World Health Organization (WHO) received $5.1 billion from 1998 to 2023.

❗️South Africa is among the top 5 countries receiving grants, having obtained 507 grants. India is the 4th highest recipient with 748 grants, Switzerland with 910, the UK with 1388, and the USA with the most, 26,988 grants.

❗️In terms of regions served:

4⃣ America received the most grants, totaling 19,240.
Africa is second with 6,032 grants.

5⃣ Asia follows with 3,902 grants.

6⃣ Europe received 589 grants, and Oceania received 101 grants.

❗️Notably, Agricultural development received 1,484 committed grants,
- totaling $7.4 billion worldwide,
- with over 95% benefiting Asia and Africa between 2003 and 2023. Specifically, $2.5 billion of this amount was committed between 2018 and 2023. 1. Reference: Committed Grants Data Base South Africa
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🔖📕Approval Process of the AMA Treaty ❗️🇿🇦

❗️Did you know that it is a constitutional requirement that all international agreements have to be tables in Parliament, and that those falling within the ambit of section 231(2) of the Constitution requires tabling and approval of the National Assembly (NA) and the National Coincil of Provinces (NCOP)?

‼️But, why is there pressure that the NA approves the Treaty when we see no official record of the AMA treaty tabled for approval with the NCOP?‼️

History of the NCOP Oversight function:
- An earlier interim report on the request of the then chair of The NCOP, Dr. Naledi Pandor, on its role in the oversight process provides that it is to assess whether the implementation of laws and the expenditure of funds achieves the goals intended by Parliament, and that transformation will occur only to the extent that initial goals are attained.
- Poor implementation will prevent, or at least, delay transformation. The NCOP’s role in oversight is to draw provincial and local experience into the national debate when the effectiveness of policy and its implementation is considered.
- The report suggests that the NCOP has a great degree of flexibility in the way in which it fulfils its oversight role.
- Although it is constitutionally obliged to conduct certain oversight functions it can be selective.
- This allows the NCOP to prioritise important issues and review them thoroughly rather than covering a great amount of ground superficially.
- The NCOP is a small house with limited capacity but in choosing matters to focus on, the NCOP might, it can
• Respond to specific needs or problems that have been brought to its attention; or
• Review areas in which legislation is in place and has been implemented, to assess whether the policy is successful and any glitches need to be sorted out.

The AMA Treaty approval:
The AMA Treaty when approved binds the Republic only after it has been approved by resolution in both the NA and the NCOP.

Note for the AMA Treaty
International agreements requiring parliamentary approval in terms of Section 231(2) of the Constitution are agreements that:
1. Have financial implications that require an additional budgetary allocation from Parliament.
2. Have legislative or domestic legal implications (e.g. require new legislation or legislative amendments)
3. That requires ratification in terms of the international agreement itself.
4. That requires accession in terms of the international agreement itself.
5. Are not departmentally specific but straddle the functions of more than one line-function department. 6. Have major political or other significance.

🇿🇦❗️👇Reference in comments 👇❗️🇿🇦 1.1 Reference: VE FOR THE CONCLUSION OF INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS 2019 @DIRCO_ZA @ClaysonMonyela
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👋📕The African Medicines Agency (AMA) Treaty:

🇿🇦What South Africans urgently need to be informed about is Parliament's failure to address crucial details regarding the AMA Treaty at the Portfolio Committee meeting held on 14 Nov 2023. In my view, Parliament should refrain from ratifying the AMA Treaty until the public participation process is incorporated, and essential questions are thoroughly addressed. This lack of transparency denies citizens the right to be adequately informed and involved in decisions that profoundly impact their healthcare and rights.
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1. AMA has been in the making since 2009 and it hasn't yet been approved by Parliament, but it is approved by Cabinet. There has been NO public hearings/ public participation & there are far reaching legal implications. But, some organisations are urging that it must be signed, and they are mutually affiliated, some through funding from the Gates Foundation (GF). Eg. SAHPRA, Bhekisisa, WHO, AMATA, Bill Gates, EU, EMA, SAHTAC.
❗️COMMENT - Links in comments which shows a network of some South African institutions receiving grants from the GF & working with global partners who advocate for the implementation of the AMA in Africa dating back a few years.

2. Once approved by Parliament it is binding on the Republic in terms of section 231(2) of the constitution and South Africa will give up our rights to make informed decisions on ALL our healthcare decisions to the AMA which WILL REGULATE (MAKE LAWS) on ALL our food supplements, medical devices, medical products, medicines, traditional medicines, and other regulated products complementary medicines, traditional medical products, cosmetics, food supplements and related products.
❗️Is this why SAHPRA is pursuing regulating our vitamins? How do traditional healers feel about this? How do you feel about this?
- The Parliamentary Committee failed to deliberate on this matter pertaining to health as stipulated in the South African Constitution. How can they justify making a decision to relinquish our constitutional right to healthcare without addressing this specific section in the treaty
- The Committee's oversight in safeguarding South Africans' interests is evident in its failure to thoroughly examine the regulations and provisions regarding compulsory medical treatment. Additionally, it overlooked addressing the provisions concerning claims for individuals suffering from side effects resulting from medical treatments.

3. The ABSENCE of specific definitions for terms such as disease, illness, sickness, disability, or virus within the AMA Treaty raises significant questions regarding the determination of conditions that necessitate treatment:
❗️How does the AMA intend to discern which diseases, illnesses, viruses, or disabilities warrant treatment without defined parameters?
- Without clear definitions, what criteria or guidelines will the AMA use to identify and prioritize conditions requiring medical attention or intervention?
- How will the absence of these specific definitions impact the AMA's decision-making process regarding healthcare priorities and allocation of resources?

4. The NDoh presentation to Parliament on 14 Nov 2023 ommitted discussions on crucial sections of the Treaty:

4.1 The AMA Treaty states that AMA will adhere to the principle of confidentiality.
❗️ What's the extent of the confidentiality and its impact on human rights? Remember the Covid-19 Vaccine Contracts which was withheld from the public? @HealthJusticeIn @ShabnamPalesaMo

4.2 Medical Device means instrument, apparatus, implant, in vitro or calibrator, software….Intended by the manufacturer to be used alone or in combination for humans or animals for:
- Diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, treatment, alleviation of disease
- Investigation, replacement, modification or support of anatomy or of physiological process
- Providing information for medical ...
❗️The Parliamentary committee failed to interrogate what software

The AMA Treaty defines Medicines to be manufactured to use in:
(a) the diagnosis, treatment, mitigation, modification, or prevention of disease abonormal physical or mental state or the symptoms thereof in humans; OR
(b) restoring, correcting or modifying any somatic or psychic or organic function in humans, and includes veterinary medicines
❗️Does this encompass our pets or animal products consumed for human consumption?
- The Parliamentary Committee neglected to address point (b).
- There was a failure to consult independent healthcare experts regarding the interpretation of "correcting or modifying function in humans."
- Does this imply laws permitting children to make decisions without parental consent for undergoing sex changes, and from what age?
- Does it imply the enforcement of laws allowing modifications of human functions against individuals' wills?

4.3 The Functions of AMA (Article 6)
❗️to convene in collaboration with the WHO
-to design systems to monitor & evaluate (track and trace) and decide on selected medical products including complex molecules for treatment of priority diseases/conditions as determined by the African Union (AU) and the World Health Organisation (WHO).
- promote and advocate for the adoption of the AU Model Law on medical products regulation in states (provinces)
❗️What level of authority does the World Health Organization (WHO) possess concerning the AMA?
- What specific frameworks or systems, including digital systems, do they intend to establish? How does the treaty ensure the protection of South Africans' right to privacy?

4.4 Immunities of the AMA
❗️The extent of immunities granted by the AMA treaty raises questions similar to those surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine contracts.
- To what degree do these immunities shield involved parties from legal accountability or consequences?

4.5 Article 30: Relationships with other organisations and institutions
- The AMA shall establish and maintain a close working relationship & collaboration with the ff:
(a) World Health Organisation (WHO)
(b) Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC)
(c) Regional Economic Communities (RECs)
(d) Any other UN Agencies, inter governmental organisations and non-govt org or other institutions.
❗️Why did the Parliamentary Committee not scrutinize this extensive section in the treaty?
- Will this collaboration encompass entities like the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA), Bill Gates, or other comparable organizations like Pharmaceutical Manufacturers?
- The omission of an inquiry into the scope and implications of these broad collaborations remains a significant concern.

4.6 That the IFPMA is a founding member of the African Medicines Agency Treaty Alliance (AMATA), which was specifically set up to advocate for the rapid ratification & implementation of the African Medicines Agency Treaty (AMA), and the IFPMA President and Chair of the IFPMA CEO Steering Committee is Albert Boula who is the Chairman and CEO of Pfizer.
❗️The presence of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) as a founding member of the African Medicines Agency Treaty Alliance (AMATA), aimed at advocating for the swift ratification and implementation of the African Medicines Agency Treaty (AMA), raises crucial concerns:
- The Parliamentary Committee failed to address or inquire about the potential conflict of interest between IFPMA's advocacy for rapid ratification and the interests of its members, including Albert Bourla, the Chairman and CEO of Pfizer, who holds key positions within IFPMA.
- What level of influence does the IFPMA wield within the AMA framework?
- The potential conflict of interest arising from the close association between key pharmaceutical figures and the advocacy for rapid ratification and implementation of the AMA Treaty should have been thoroughly investigated and disclosed by the Parliamentary Committee.

@NickHudsonCT @PanData19 @bevschafer @Jay_Naidoo

👇🇿🇦 References 🇿🇦👇


1⃣ Treaty for the Establishment of the African Medicines Agency
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