The COVID 19 pandemic has brough to the open the very ugly reality of a society that is untransformed and where the majority of people, women, workers and blacks in particular, are facing the daily pain of extreme poverty, inequalities and unemployment in their families and communities. These reflect the persisting structural fault-lines of the legacy of apartheid and the class, racial and gender contradictions beyond the 1994 democratic breakthrough. The pains of unchanging conditions are daily compounded by the COVID 19 pandemic and its associated consequences.
