Roundtable discussion: The politics of pandemic

As the country enters level 2 of the lockdown that doesn’t want to end, the assessments are being carefully weighed, and debated about the approach we have taken in the face of an economy that has been bent beyond recognition. Has the ANC’s corruption addiction tipped the scales? Where were the opposition during all of this? Michael Avery speaks Professor Susan Booysen is Director of Research at the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (Mistra) and Visiting Professor at the Wits School of Governance; Richard Calland, Associate Professor in Public Law, University of Cape Town, and a Founding Partner in political risk consultancy, The Paternoster Group; & Professor Alex van den Heever, chair in the field of Social Security Systems Administration and Management Studies at the Wit's School of Governance, about the political fallout from Covid 19