It’s a matter of political will, starting with the will to cast the spell of the cult of the celebrity out of our politics.
Several estimates place job losses due to the Covid-19 outbreak at three million in the immediate term and a further five million between now and whenever the economy begins to recover. The general socioeconomic and political implications of this grim reality are all too obvious. What is as yet to be perceptible is the extent of its specific repercussions.
Ours is an era of all-round short-termism in which, as Eric Hobsbawm noted at the turn of the last century: “The only logic of investment that is now valid is that of participating in something that will produce an immediate premium.” The government would place its resources on the table and honestly admit its deficiencies before the nation.Such a process would at all costs avoid non-negotiables for the simple reason that these remain uncharted waters demanding the rethinking of many things.
Ideally, the enormity of the crisis should inspire South Africans to appreciate that we are, after all, a developing and African country whose every social policy endeavour ought not to lose sight of the imperative of united nonracial nation formation. Despite the fact that SA’s Supreme Court of Appeal and the Constitutional Court are yet to adjudicate on a finding by the High Court in Pretoria, which affirmed the correctness of redress, the DA’s adventure complicates matters.
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