EDITORIAL: No, SA doesn’t need (and can’t afford) a new lockdown
28 October 2020 - 06:00
In an ominous tone, KwaZulu-Natal premier Sihle Zikalala threatened last week that, given the trend in Covid-19 cases, “we can safely say that we are definitely going back into a hard lockdown, if there is no urgent and drastic change in behaviour”.
You can see why that would be a seductive idea for the politicians: use the blunt instrument of force to leverage greater control over your population, and force a specific outcome...
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