COVID-19 Lays Bare South Africa's Rampant Inequality & Fault Lines of Post-Apartheid Society

COVID-19 infections are skyrocketing in South Africa, now fifth in the world for coronavirus cases, with an already fragile hospital system. I really think it's our inequality reckoning moment," says Fatima Hassan, a human rights lawyer with the Health Justice Initiative. All of the fault lines of South Africa's post-apartheid democracy, and its inequality and its violence, is actually coming to the fore."