South Africa is in danger of lurching from the Covid-19 crisis to the self-inflicted crisis of authoritarianism.
From numerous court cases in the public record, we know government officials have habitually neglected to manage what was within their sphere of control. The cost of this negligence is being externalised as the irrational and disproportionate reduction of citizens' self-determination over the lockdown.
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