INEQUALITIES AND THE MANEUVERINGS OF MONOPOLY CAPITAL DURING THE COVID-19 CRISIS: A CASE FOR SOUTH AFRICA
COVID-19 has in South Africa brought to bear Laski’s assertion that ‘a State divided into a small number of rich (monopolistic) and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property’. Laski’s statement centres inequality as an epistemic site from which to interpret a state’s capacity to respond on behalf of all its citizens during times of crisis such as COVID-19. In responding the State will, and depending on who does the judgement’, be judged on how it increases access to care for those that would otherwise have afforded in contrast to those of whom limited access is a normality. As the increase in reported cases of COVID-19 claws itself towards a 1000 mark in South Africa, and as at its second week since the first report, the established patterns of in-country regional and spatial poverty are getting into a territory of their most consequential review. These conditions generates questions on...