If you, like me, have been utterly despairing after days of gruelling videos and news spiraling down into a vortex of doom, here is a thread of some green shoots of hope. They made me feel much better.
Birch Acres Mall near Tembisa
One SANDF soldier doing the most. "No shopping!"
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A TALE OF ALCOHOL & COVID-19
Yesterday a colleague in Norkem Park heard an almighty bang outside his house. A car roared away. Being on Day 13 of quarantine after being diagnosed with COVID-19, he rushed out in pyjamas, slippers and mask. His neighbour's wall had a large hole. 1/
As he stared at the scene, a Tazz sailed down the road past him with bricks heaped on its damaged front. My colleague, being a police officer, dashed indoors, stashed his gun in his pyjamas, leapt in his police vehicle and took off after the suspect, siren blaring. 2/
My colleague eventually pulled the suspect vehicle over and ordered the driver out. Extremely drunk and apparently unaware of the prior collision, the driver was utterly shocked to see the bricks and damage to his vehicle and promptly urinated all over. 3/
So @helenzille has said the post-1994 democratic govt has passed more racial laws than the apartheid era did. Here's a handy thread from the TRC report Volume 1 on pre-1994 apartheid legislation. -
Key:
A - denotes basic apartheid laws
W - workplace laws
S - security laws
P - political representation
L - land and property
E - education
U - urbanization
Only discriminatory legislation is listed.
There are twenty seven pages of laws listed. For the sake of 'brevity', the additional eighteen pages of homelands laws are not included here. They can be found on pages 478 - 496 of Volume 1.