Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa’s walking president, set tongues wagging when he first took office thanks to his habit of taking a brisk morning walk.
President Cyril Ramaphosa during his early morning walk on February 07, 2018 in Cape Town, South Africa. Between the broken infrastructure and the traffic, it’s becoming harder and harder to walk the city in Gauteng, and indeed around the rest of the country. This is, of course, ironic given that the vast majority of South Africans are walkers and should be accommodated.
What is so desperately needed is greater interaction between professionals and government, and ongoing consultation with communities to understand how to breathe life into our cities. This call to action should, at this time, also be tied into the inevitable economic recovery and infrastructure drive that has been promised as part of South Africa’s response to the Covid-19 crisis. Coupled to this should be a greater debate and reflection about the type of society we hope to see in the future.
While it’s easy to consider the digital reality for institutions such as private schools, which can certainly teach remotely, this is much more of a challenge in poorer communities and townships. That is, unless we build a digital framework into our urban design planning which promotes equality.
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