The very subtitle of the NYT article, which can be read without a subscription, apparently has changed and now reads: "With countries trying to close their doors to the new coronavirus variant, southern African officials note that the West’s hoarding of vaccines helped create their struggle in the first place." South Africa is the largest southern African country by a large margin (60M of 68M south Africans live in South Africa) [1]. Furthermore, that vaccine demand is so low that South Africa stopped asking for the vaccine is relevant to an article that is quick to prominently blame "the West" for their vaccine troubles.

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/continents/southern-africa...