Let me see. The contract was apparently written and agreed before the vaccine was approved for use in South Africa. The fulfilment of the contract was contingent on Pfizer’s ability to gain regulatory approval in South Africa. This is communicated in a series of statements on page 2:
“WHEREAS, Pfizer Inc. (”Pfizer US”) and BioNTech SE, a company organized and existing under the laws of Germany (”BioNTech”), are collaborating to develop a vaccine to address the global COVID-19 pandemic;
WHEREAS, subject to clinical success, Pfizer US and BioNTech shall be responsible for all requirements of the processes of approval of the clinical trials and the marketing authorization of the Product;
WHEREAS, Purchaser desires to purchase the Product for use in South Africa (the “Territory”), and subject to clinical success and regulatory approval, Pfizer desires to manufacture and supply such Product to Purchaser;
and WHEREAS, the Parties are willing to carry out the foregoing pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.”
What this all means is that the South African government was not going to purchase any vaccine until clinical trials provided enough data to warrant market approval.
While on page 21, it does state that “Purchaser further acknowledges that the long-term effects and efficacy of the Vaccine are not currently known and that there may be adverse effects of the Vaccine that are not currently known,” this implies that these will be known at a future date. There is no way the South African government was going to buy untested prototype vaccines to give to the general population; no government does that. I will note that this statement is almost meaningless: the long-term effects of immune system activation through disease or vaccination have been studied for hundreds of years. Usually, these effects are the presence of pathogen-specific B- and T- cells and antibodies. The duration of the effects are pathogen-specific; for coronaviruses, they tend to last only a few months. There is no reason to expect that these effects will be significantly different for Covid vaccines than they are for other vaccines.
In addition, I will point out that the contract is fairly standard as far as contracts go. It specifies that the product must be manufactured according to exact standards and that the recipient must store and use it under appropriate conditions. It is also marked “confidential,” since it is a contract; my experience with contracting actions is that they are “non-disclosure.” meaning that I cannot legally talk about any contract details. This is because contract details might be used to steal proprietary information. Industrial espionage is a HUGE problem. I suspect that the proprietary information was actually contained in pdf files that were attached to the original contract, but are not linked in the redacted version.
Before going all out with conspiracy theories, why not read the original document and see what it really says?
https://healthjusticeinitiative.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/OCRPfizer-1_Redacted.pdf
What “conspiracy theories” are you talking about?
I was assuming your statements would make sense, but this term “conspiracy theories” seems to indicate confusion.
Language reflects thought.