The Covid-19 pandemic provides even more time to reflect on the sort of society we have become even as the ineptitude of the state has been laid bare throughout this period.
Last week, as we listened to Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni’s Budget, we heard just how much poorer we had become and that tough economic times await us.Something will have to give. Mostly it will be the poor who will suffer more as there is simply no money to meet the housing, education and healthcare burdens on the state. We know too that the deep levels of poverty, unemployment and inequality cause levels of depravity which we have become virtually inured to.
The pattern is clear: billions stolen across the country, represents money that will never reach the poor. We heard of Collins Khosa’s death at the hands of the SANDF and SAPS. We do not grieve enough in this country that moves on rapidly from one painful episode to the next. There is nothing new about this scene in the “new” South Africa but somehow the indignity visited upon this man, in a state of undress, seemed to shame us all.
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