South Africans feeling anger and sense of alienation from government under lockdown

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These are miserable times for South Africans as the Covid-19 infection rate is accelerates and the impact on our economy grows.

Scenes of police using water cannons against protesting restaurant workers in Cape Town were shockingChefs, waiters, winery workers, hoteliers and tourism operators marched to parliament in Cape Town to protest against lockdown regulations that have forced businesses to close and threatened thousands of jobs. Police later used water cannon on the protesters.These are miserable times for South Africans as the Covid-19 infection rate accelerates and the affect on our economy grows.

There is palpable anger among us all. Some of it is inevitable as the disease tears its way through our society and economy. However, there is a sense that government is too easily bent by powerful lobbies rather than acting in the best interest of all of us. At the same time, by caving in to the taxi industry and education unions, it has shown that protest is the only language it hears.

Source: Financial Digest (financialdigest.net)

 

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