23: Policing the pandemic
On March 5, 2020, South Africa recorded its first official case of COVID-19 when a South African returning from holiday tested positive. The number of excess deaths is over 300,000. The policy response to the pandemic is regarded as among the most draconian in Africa. In 2020, the government imposed...
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| description | On March 5, 2020, South Africa recorded its first official case of COVID-19 when a South African returning from holiday tested positive. The number of excess deaths is over 300,000. The policy response to the pandemic is regarded as among the most draconian in Africa. In 2020, the government imposed a stay-at-home lockdown for 100 days, which was enforced by armed police and the army. Breaching the lockdown was a criminal offence and arrests were widespread. By April 2021, over 400,000 had been apprehended. In his 2021 book, One Virus, Two Countries, Steven Friedman suggests that government containment and punishment measures had a negative impact on the country's urban poor, a population that includes many internal migrants, several million international migrants, and refugees. This chapter discusses South Africa's militaristic policy and policing response to the advent of COVID-19, and how this impacted migrants in the urban formal and informal economy. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1660332025-08-20T14:14:00Z 23: Policing the pandemic Crush, Jonathan Sithole, Sean South Africa; COVID-19 pandemic; Migrants; Lockdown JBFH KCVS KCVJ GBC On March 5, 2020, South Africa recorded its first official case of COVID-19 when a South African returning from holiday tested positive. The number of excess deaths is over 300,000. The policy response to the pandemic is regarded as among the most draconian in Africa. In 2020, the government imposed a stay-at-home lockdown for 100 days, which was enforced by armed police and the army. Breaching the lockdown was a criminal offence and arrests were widespread. By April 2021, over 400,000 had been apprehended. In his 2021 book, One Virus, Two Countries, Steven Friedman suggests that government containment and punishment measures had a negative impact on the country's urban poor, a population that includes many internal migrants, several million international migrants, and refugees. This chapter discusses South Africa's militaristic policy and policing response to the advent of COVID-19, and how this impacted migrants in the urban formal and informal economy. Published 2025-08-20T14:13:58Z 2025-08-20T14:13:58Z 2025-07-08 chapter 9781035301232 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/166033 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/handbook-of-research-on-migration-covid-19-and-cities-9781035301225.html https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-oa/book/9781035301232/chapter23.xml Edward Elgar Publishing Edward Elgar Publishing 10.4337/9781035301232.00033 10.4337/9781035301232.00033 01ceac28-75b4-492a-8eec-f9b98bc6b28c https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 9781035301232 Edward Elgar Publishing Cheltenham, UK open access |
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