Pandemic Policies in South Africa - a Model of Neocolonial State Capture: SouthAfrica
than in any other country on the continent. As of 30 September, 2022, the country had recorded 102,185 mortalities from the virus, more than triple the death toll of the second worst-affected nation.
This fraught relationship between Covid-19, the South African state, and rural livelihoods and beliefs is the focus of. Initially growing out of a rapid response research project into what was happening in the Eastern Cape when the first Covid wave struck in 2020, Leslie Bank and Nelly Sharpley's book focuses on funerary practices and the ways in which they were upturned.
The authors also pinpoint another important aspect of the under-examined relationship between urban and rural lives during the pandemic. In South Africa, the risk of death made many urban migrants want to return to their homelands. At the same time, they recognised that this might lead them to lose their insecure housing in townships - as many did - and put their rural relatives at risk.
Banks and Sharpley's book bravely seeks to examine why the lockdown model failed so atrociously. Their answer lies in South Africa's unscientific importation of an. As anyone who knows the African continent realises, lockdowns could never work in crowded housing settlements which predominate in urban areas. In fact, incarcerating people together inside could help the virus to spread.
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