Editorial: This week has been precedent-setting - The Mail & Guardian

For an everyday South African, the only point at which they interact with the state is at the municipal level or every other five years, when there are national or local elections. Judging by the poor report cards on the performance of the 257 municipalities spread across the country, it’s not a healthy relationship. Citizens certainly can’t be happy with unemployment at record highs and what was a moribund economy before Covid-19 was declared a pandemic last March.

A lack of proper running water and sanitation, healthcare, schooling, not to mention electricity supply, where the many can’t afford tariffs that have skyrocketed over the past decade as the country has funded a badly executed Eskom expansion project. We have seen how buildings, livelihoods, malls and anything that stands for economic activity were looted, wrecked and burned with law enforcement unable to stop it.

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