Give me 30 bad women, half a ton of gold bullion and a mothballed SAA Airbus and you’ll never hear from me again.
Bit tricky, this lifting of the locky-locky. We don’t know how it’s going to work, but then again, I’m pretty sure they don’t either. In South Africa, the word “they” is a bullet that’s been fired discriminately for many years. In this case, They be the masters and mistresses of our destiny. We are very much in an Us and Them situation. And for once, it’s not a racial thing. Well, it is, but also it isn’t. It’s primarily a power thing.
So back to what I was saying about the complexity of adjusting the levels of tyranny. There are several elephants in this room. Let us talk about one of the bigger ones, as impolite and potentially career-limiting as it may be. For obvious reasons, townships aren’t complying with lockdown regulations and police have given up trying to enforce pretty much anything apart from prohibition and the curfew.
On paper, this means townships would stay locked down forever while white people are allowed to roam free. It’s never going to happen. As our American comrades might say, the optics would be appalling. Which means white South Africans are finally paying a price for our brutalist sociological architecture. And it took a virus for it to happen.
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