Tannie Evita Bezuidenhout, who is a resident in the West Coast District of the Western Cape, received her vaccination today at the Wesbank Community Hall in Malmesbury.
Premier Alan Winde says Tannie Evita is helping to send an important message to residents across the province that the vaccine is safe and that it offers excellent protection against severe COVID-19 related illness and death.
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“I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to Tannie Evita for once again leading from the front in our country. This, of course, is not the first time she has helped with important health awareness campaigns, having been a powerful advocate for HIV awareness and education. I admire her dedication, and I am personally a very big fan!”
Tannie Evita said: “Yes, I am so very relieved to get my vaccine. But I have a smartphone. I have a computer. I have internet. I have a car. I am 85 and I still drive myself. But many, many of my generation and younger don’t know how to register. So if you know how and someone doesn’t – please help them to register. And if you don’t know, then ask someone to help you. My son De Kock registered me; I couldn’t get the little blue letters on the screen to turn black. This is why we do need to be able to cope with walk-ins and information in all eleven languages. And I was so pleased to hear Premier Alan Winde and the Western Cape Government responding to this obvious need to manage and to allow walk-ins.”
This week, the Western Cape will increase the number of public vaccination service points to over 137 which includes, public and private sites, as well as temporary outreaches to places like old age homes.
Hundreds of sites will open across the Western Cape:
• 48 sites in the Overberg District
• 48 sites in the Cape Winelands District
• 14 sites in the Central Karoo District
• 53 sites in the West Coast District, and
• 41 sites in the Garden Route District
If you know someone who is over 60 and needs help to register, please do your best to assist. It will take just 6 minutes of your time.
Registration is simple and can be done by:
• visiting https://vaccine.enroll.health.gov.za/#/ or www.westerncape.gov.za
• dialing *134*832# and follow the prompts (FREE on all South African Networks); or
• WhatsApp the word REGISTER to 0600 123456.
