The people are ‘gatvol’. And they’re doing the one thing that any government should be terrified of: they are en masse defying the law.
That’s a new experience for whites but it was, of course, the ever-present reality of black South Africans for generations. Democracy in 1994 was supposed to make us all equal on this score by ending gratuitous state violence, but it hasn’t quite worked out like that. But with lockdown, the mask of benign governance has dropped. The state’s visceral tendencies towards control and authoritarianism have slipped into suburbia.. And they’re doing the one thing that any government should be terrified of: they are en masse defying the law.
Effective lockdown has been largely a suburban experience, initially self-enforced by a people who understood and agreed with the policy. And when the middle classes eventually got a little uppity, footage of burly police officers trying to drag an “arrested” toddler from its father’s arms, or a weeping jogger manhandled into a patrol van, quickly restored obedience.
When the ban is lifted, the illegal sellers will, with their newly improved distribution channels, switch to better-quality products priced more cheaply than the highly taxed legal ones.
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