JONATHAN JANSEN | Travel bans against SA are about racism and nothing else
Instead of helping ‘wretched’ Africa, the world has shut it out, something it hasn’t done to rich countries
01 December 2021 - 19:58
If you had any lingering doubts about the unbroken link between racism and disease, then events of the past week should have opened your eyes. No sooner had South African scientists announced the discovery of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant on November 24, but the West reacted with a fierceness that would have embarrassed its colonial progenitors, from Rudyard Kipling (The White Man’s Burden) and Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness) to the streams of imperial missionaries and scientists sent to save and civilise the Dark Continent...
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