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Africa Has to Tony Fauci”’, News 24, 25 February 2021, https://www.news24.com/news24/opinions/
fridaybriefing/the-mission-how-glenda-gray-became-the-closest-thing-south-africa-has-to-tony-
fauci-20210225.
2 MRC, AR 2020–2021, p. 117.
3 MRC, AR 2020–2021, p. 125.
4 MRC, AR 2020–2021, p. 133.
5 MRC, AR 2020–2021, p. 60.
6 Daily Maverick 168, 12–17 June 2022, p. 13.
7 The Lancet, 400, 10350 (6 August 2022), p. 423.
8 https://www.thepresidency.gov.za/press-statements/statement/-president-cyril-ramaphosa-arrival--j-
j-covid-vaccine.
9 Linda-Gail Bekker, Glenda Gray, Ameena Goga, Nigel Garrett, Lara Fairall, Ian Sanne, Fatima Mayat,
Jacquee Odhiambo and Simba Takuva, ‘The Sisonke Trial Rewrote History: Eight Lessons for the
Nationwide Vaccine Roll-out’, Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism, May 27, 2021.
10 MRC, AR 2021–2022, p. 21.
11 Cowan and Karrim, ‘The Mission’. Fauci was the high-profile chief medical adviser to the US President
during the Covid-19 pandemic.
12 Interview with Professor Glenda Gray, 9 April 2022.
13 Interview with Professor Glenda Gray, 9 April 2022.
14 Interview with Professor Glenda Gray, 9 April 2022.
15 Karin Schimke, ‘Glenda Gray: The Woman Heading Up South Africa’s Sub-team of Covid-19 Pandemic
Research Advisors’, Daily Maverick, 14 May 2020, https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-05-
14-glenda-gray-the-woman-heading-up-south-africas-team-of-50-expert-covid-19-pandemic-advisors/.
16 Azarrah Karrim and Sarah Evans, ‘Unscientific and Nonsensical: Top Scientist Slams Government’s
Lockdown Strategy’, News 24, 16 May 2020, https://www.news24.com/news24/SouthAfrica/News/
unscientific-and-nonsensical-top-scientific-adviser-slams-governments-lockdown-strategy-20200516.
17 Salim S. Abdool Karim, Standing up for Science: A Voice of Reason (Macmillan, Johannesburg, 2023), p. 203.
18 Karim, Standing up for Science, p. 202.
19 ‘Health Minister’s Statement on Professor Glenda Gray’s Public Attack of Government Based on
Inaccurate Information, May 20th, 2020’, https://sacoronavirus.co.za/2020/05/20/health-ministers-
statement-on-the-prof-glenda-grays-public-attack-of-government-based-on-inaccurate-information/.
20 Liezl Human and Nathan Geffen, ‘Health Department Boss Calls for Investigation into Prof Glenda
Gray’, News 24, 22 May 2020, https://www.news24.com/news24/SouthAfrica/News/health-
department-boss-calls-for-investigation-into-prof-glenda-gray-20200522.
21 J. A. Singh, A. Habib and J. Jansen, ‘Freedom of Speech and Public Interest, Not Allegiance, Should
Underpin Science Advisement to Government’, South African Medical Journal, 110, 7 (July 2020), p. 578,
http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/article/view/12954/9440.
22 Paul Herman, ‘SAMRC Board Apologises for Prof Gray’s Comments, Bars Staff from Speaking to
Media’, News 24, 25 May 2020, https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/breaking-samrc-
board-apologises-for-glenda-grays-comments-bars-staff-from-speaking-to-media-20200525.
23 MRC President’s Office: Professor Johnny Mahlangu to Acting Director of National Department of
Health, Dr Anban Pillay, 22 May 2020.
24 Singh, Habib and Jansen, ‘Freedom of Speech and Public Interest, not allegiance’, p. 579.
25 Tamar Kahn, ‘MRC Dropping Probe over Comments by Prof Glenda Gray Welcomed’, Business Day, 26
May 2020, https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/health/mrc-dropping-probe-over-comments-
by-prof-glenda-gray-welcomed/.
26 See https://sacoronavirus.co.za/2020/07/14/tackling-the-challenge-of-schooling-during-covid-19-
pandemic-prof-glenda-gray/.

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