By the standards of the century as a whole, 2021 will probably turn out to have been a relatively cool year
After a week of the worst violence since the end of apartheid,, and a humanitarian crisis is spreading. The proximate cause of the unrest was the jailing of Jacob Zuma for defying a court order to appear at an inquiry into vast corruption during his presidency from 2009-18.
But the roots of the crisis are in over two decades of corruption and mismanagement by the ruling, compounded by the pandemic. Lockdowns have pushed people deeper into poverty. Poor workers, nearly all of whom are not white, are almost four times as likely to have lost jobs since covid-19 arrived as higher-paid ones. For South Africa, going back to normal may not be enough.
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