SOCIAL JUSTICE AND COVID 19 IN THE 'NEW SOUTH AFRICA: INVOKING RAMOSEAN MEDITATIONS IN PANDEMIC TIMES

In this contributory essay to the 2021 Special Section of PSLR spotlighting ‘Social Justice and COVID-19’, I attempt challenge portrayals novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as an ‘indiscriminate’ ‘equal opportunity’ assailant. doing so, endeavour bring fore a reading social injustices experienced during ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that implicates not only systemic disadvantages inherited from apartheid but also legacies unjust colonial conquest. By underscoring memory possibility condition for restorative justice within progressively South Africa, draw on philosopher Mogobe Ramose’s counter-discourse meditations problematising pervasiveness colonial-apartheid conquest in post-1994 liberal democratic polity. Accordingly, align myself with perspectives consider substantive stratified ‘new’ Africa be decolonial carved out by African experience memory, restoration unjustly dispossessed land cohesion.