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Pop-up vaccination site at the SABC Auckland Park Campus on August 26, 2021 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Gauteng government partnered with SABC to boost to the province’s mass vaccination programme. (Photo by Papi Morake/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
ALAN DODSON

Vaccine mandate quandary heading to court, Concourt candidate predicts

Alan Dobson SC says a legislating vaccine mandates would have to be weighed against various constitutional provisions and was likely to see legal challenge

  • Emsie Ferreira
3 min read
Mandatory vaccination involves, at a glance, the constitutional rights to bodily integrity, privacy, to protection against unfair discrimination and to freedom of thought, religion, conscience and opinion. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
ADRIAN GORE

Covid-19 vaccine mandates: A constitutional balancing act

South Africa’s laws allow the government to implement mandatory Covid vaccinations but, if it chooses this path, it must do so responsibly

  • Safura Abdool Karim
9 min read