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COVID in South Africa shows the limits of using courts to fight political battles

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par Julian Brown, Associate Professor of Political Studies, University of the Witwatersrand

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed many aspects of our daily lives. Some of these changes are immediately visible in the everyday wearing of face masks, in the bottles of hand sanitiser found on shop counters, and in the careful spacing of long queues. Others, though, are less obvious. They take place in the structures of the legal system that shapes our relationships to one another and to the state.

In the recent past, as I’ve argued in my book, South…

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