Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has joined a call from activists and researchers urging President Cyril Ramaphosa to revisit SA’s position on a compromise deal that emerged last week at World Trade Organisation talks on a waiver on intellectual property rights (IP) for Covid-19 technologies, saying it will not do enough to make cheap generic vaccines and treatments available to developing countries.

Leaked documents detail a compromise position reached by negotiators for the US, EU, SA and India that could potentially end the near 18-month deadlock over the IP waiver...