Jayaseelan ‘Jay’ Naidoo (1954-) is a South African politician, businessman, union leader and political activist (Figure 228.1). He was Minister for Reconstruction and Development in the first (post-apartheid) cabinet of President Nelson Mandela (1918-2013). He has been awarded the Legion of Honour by France and various other international accolades, including an honorary doctorate in Engineering.
Figure 228.1: A former science student, Jay Naidoo’s profound intelligence and humanity shine through all his accomplishments and were presumably the reasons why Mandela thought so highly of him.
Copyright © 2020 Mike Milli
Naidoo wrote the following plea recently:
‘I am a grandfather. Three beautiful grandsons. After having three children which my wife raised pretty much on her own because I was so busy helping change the course of history.
‘I grew up in a country which tore families, communities, friends and organisations apart based on one of the greatest injustices of humankind: that we were less than human because of the colour of our skin. They used propaganda, the media, the laws, the bible and even science to justify apartheid.
‘I see mounting data relating to those who are suffering vaccine injuries. In my own family. And all around me. Last week, someone was telling me of this seven-year-old boy, Rayn Cronjé, who collapsed and died, in Rustenburg. Heart attack. A few months ago, an 11-year-old boy suffered a heart attack at a primary school in Pretoria West. Then 12-year-old Rick Hendricks collapsed and died on the rugby field in Pretoria. And 19-year-old Helené Jansen Van Rensburg, and 18-year-old Jessica Matthews who collapsed and died. Same as 24-year-old Carla Steytler who died suddenly. I have read newspapers all my life and never have I seen so many cardiac arrests in children and youth.
‘Peer-reviewed papers in recent months are showing potential links between the mRNA technology and conditions such as:
— autoimmune diseases
— aggressive deadly cancers
— severe inflammatory conditions
— prion diseases (untreatable contagious diseases resulting in the gradual decline of brain-function leading to personality changes and death)
— myocarditis
— blood clotting
— impaired fertility
— miscarriages and spontaneous abortions.
‘Everywhere I go, I hear stories of vaccine injured people. My mother-in-law had a heart attack after the first Pfizer shot. She was pressurized to take a second shot. Then she was unable to walk, to feed herself, bathe herself or take care of her daily needs. This is a woman whom I have known for 32 years, who was fit, who walked five kilometres a day. And then became a frail woman whom the government bureaucrats wanted to put in a hospice because there was nothing more they could do.
‘I have been labelled many times in my life. A populist. A workerist. A terrorist. A labour baron. A revolutionary. A communist. A syndicalist. A demon of Satan. The list goes on. And now an anti-vaxxer, vaccine denialist and a right-winger!
‘How does asking questions about ONE vaccine make me an anti-vaxxer, I wonder, or turn around my whole political spectrum because I care about people dying from an experimental product with no long-term data?
‘As an anti-apartheid activist, a social justice campaigner and a grassroots community and labour organiser I have also stood against tyranny. I have stood with the underdog in the face of power and arrogance.
‘We now have evidence that the Covid jab is neither safe nor effective. It does not give immunity and it does not stop transmission. Why are we not pausing the vaccination when data is mounting relating to vaccine injuries? And one of my biggest questions is why the media has so unanimously become an echo chamber of big pharma and their allies? Where is the watchdog?
‘So as I see people dying suddenly all over, including children, I cannot stand idle. I am a grandfather, a watchdog. I cannot betray what I stand for. I stand in my truth. And I stand in my power. And I stand humbly ready to accept that my truth is not the whole truth.
‘But I am a Truth–seeker. I am a Humanist. The debate has become so strident. I have friends prepared to defriend me after decades. It has divided my family. I have been called names in public. This is the most divisive conversation I have had in my life.’
Jay Naidoo stands, not for the first time, on the right side of history. He is brave enough to speak the truth, whatever the consequences. It is a crying shame that so many people are too cowardly to stand with him.
Copyright © 2023 Paul Spradbery
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