As the scholar, Simukai Chigudu aptly observed in his study of the 2008 cholera epidemic in 2008, “epidemics are tests of social and political systems”.
Covid-19 has done the same thing across the globe. The epidemics further expose the existing socio-economic and political challenges and present each nation with the opportunity to reimagine its systems.
William Butler Yeats in his classic poetry titled, “The second coming” written in 1919, shortly after the First World War and on the cusp of the “Roaring Twenties” in the United States, in which modern civilization was taking hold with the widespread use of the automobile, the telephone, the development of motion pictures, and other household electronic appliances. The poem gives a description of things going out of control.
Could Yeats have been predicting the Second World War? The poem carried a message of a troubled future world. The world today faces something more dangerous with no human face and its threatening to wipe out the human population. The new world order is being born!
The 8th edition of Moithuti is being released at a time of uncertainty of what kind of society we will come to see post this pandemic, as such articles published are always focused on the subjective and objective realities imposed by COVID-19.
This week’s edition has articles written by the following comrades:
1. Phathutshedzo Nthulane – EVOLUTION OF PROTESTS AND ITS EXISTENCE IN THE MODERN WORLD: DO PROTESTS HAVE A FUTURE IN THE DIGITAL AGE?
2. Motlatsi Tlamelo – THE RISE OF AFRICAN YOUTH
3. Doctor Ndebele – IMPACT OF LOCKDOWN AND ITS IMPLICATIONS, DURING AND POST THE LOCKDOWN: ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL.
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Julia Mtsweni
NWC & NEC member: SASCO