With projections of as many as 50,000 South Africans dying by the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic in September, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to revise lockdown regulations were to be expected.

From the beginning of June, when the state released about 8-million workers back into the economy after enduring more than two months of being home, it was understood that infection numbers would rise...

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