On the evening of March 23 2020, a few months after the outbreak of the Covid-19 virus, the government announced a “state of national disaster”, locking down the country for a period of 21 days to suppress the spread of a virus that would soon go airborne and global.
What started off as a 21-day lockdown, including a dusk-to-dawn curfew, would last about two years of various versions of lockdowns. Within weeks soldiers were deployed to enforce the lockdowns, and had killed a man who was drinking at his home in Alexandra township...
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