Covid-19: New Cape Town vaccine plant a sign that 'colonial chains are being broken' - Ramaphosa

Africa should no longer go cap-in-hand to Western countries begging for vaccines - and, with a plant that is set to produce a billion Covid-19 vaccines, the continent will stand on its own.

This was the assurance given by President Cyril Ramaphosa to African nations struggling to secure vaccines.

On Wednesday, Ramaphosa and South African-born health technologies billionaire, Patrick Soon-Shiong, officially opened a vaccine manufacturing facility aimed at producing jabs to stop the transmission of Covid-19.