{"id":34197,"date":"2026-05-11T11:48:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=34197"},"modified":"2026-05-11T11:48:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:48:40","slug":"sa-moves-closer-to-vaccine-manufacturing-hub-with-1-5-bln-investment","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-moves-closer-to-vaccine-manufacturing-hub-with-1-5-bln-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"SA moves closer to vaccine manufacturing hub with $1.5 bln investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">South Africa (SA) is moving closer to becoming a continental vaccine manufacturing hub following a major investment announcement welcomed by cabinet of a $1.5 billion funding package from the European Investment Bank Group for BioVac&#8217;s new vaccine production facility in Cape Town, Western Cape.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">The plant, expected to be completed by 2028, will become Africa&#8217;s first end-to-end multi-vaccine production site, producing vaccines for cholera, polio, pneumonia and meningitis.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">SA&#8217;s Minister in the Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni confirmed the development during a post-Cabinet briefing on Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">SA&#8217;s drive to strengthen local vaccine production has received a major boost following a $1.5 billion financing package from the European Investment Bank Group for BioVac to establish Africa&#8217;s first end-to-end multi-vaccine production plant in Cape Town.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The facility is expected to produce oral Corona vaccines by 2028, before expanding to include vaccines for polio, pneumonia and meningitis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21566,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-34197","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"SA moving closer to becoming a continental vaccine manufacture","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34198,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34197\/revisions\/34198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=34197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}