Chris Waldburger

Chris Waldburger

Africa's Post-Lockdown Carnage

Sep 25, 2023
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South Africa uses water cannon and rubber bullets to enforce lockdown |  Financial Times

In early 2020, as South Africa was being locked down, I wrote:

There is not enough evidence to lock down a country which quite simply cannot be locked down, and the attempt of which may destroy millions of livelihood…

Something has gone very wrong.

There is some darkness at the heart of all of this. I cannot begin to fathom it.

Not only can SA not lock down…

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