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More and more people find in the state an instrument for ruthless self-enrichment. State institutions are looted and emptied. This reality is the breeding ground for the acute governance crisis in South Africa. The combination of economic and political crises is causing confidence in the constitutional order to decline more and more. When the crisis caused by the coronavirus began, South Africa was already in recession. In April 2020, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a rescue package designed to help workers, businesses and households during the pandemic. The package, endowed with funds of more than 30,000 million dollars, was a light of hope for the country, but it quickly faded.
There were a number of problems with the implementation Singapore Phone Number List of the program and by July 2021 only 41% of the games had been executed. It is that the annual budget did not contemplate these disbursements. The 2020 supplementary budget only covered part of it. Most of the rescue package was financed from existing resources or extra-budgetary funds. However, the fact that the public was led to believe that the 30 would be injected into the economy. Billions of dollars in cash fueled the violent protests. The public got the impression that the "stimulus" was largely looted.
South Africa is currently experiencing the third wave of the pandemic. Most of the relief measures have already been implemented. While the government is just beginning its vaccination program, the number of people infected with coronavirus is on the rise. The third wave and its associated lockdowns hit South Africa at a time when the most fragile sections of the population have suffered loss of income and are facing enormous depletion. In January 2021, according to a recent survey, 39% of households ran out of money to buy food and 17% went hungry over the weeks.
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发表于 2023-5-5 03:01:07