In this episode Grant and Mike (from R-cubed) and guests, Shehnaz Moosa (Cape Town) and Naz Keval (UK) have a conversation about governance with the backdrop of covid-19.  Governance discussed largely with a focus on public administration.

The conversation highlighted the traumatised nature of the way governments often function. When faced with threat clear thinking becomes that much more difficult, and we can see this threat perspective in the military metaphors and discourse that have been used throughout the response to covid. Thus, we see that with structures that are not in place, regardless of the spoken intent the effect of threat means government return to what they know - governance is compromised bu the very system it fronts. Furthermore, a traumatised state seeks to regain control. It is a reactive rather than a responsive form of governance. 

On the other hand what has been observed is that a grassroots level an organic approach has emerged to care for communities, something not initiated or controlled by government. What this has demonstrated in the light of the state of governance is the need for a people-centric form of governance. That governments need to find the human connection in the way that they govern