Post-apartheid citizenship extends only to the healthy, paying, property-owning

Evidence

In negotiating the contours of the rainbow nation, the prevailing question has remained, “Who properly qualifies and who does not?” Bounded - indeed, to a troubling degree driven - by the coterminous neoliberalizing thrusts of post-apartheid sociality, full membership of the new polity extends to the healthy, to those who can pay-as-they-go, and to those who own property. The vast numbers of people stricken by AIDS (almost 20 percent of those between 19 and 45 are living with HIV, over 10 percent of the population overall, dropping life expectancy distressingly to 54) and those marked as criminals have qualified, even partial, begrudging membership, where membership at all. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1593

Categorization

• QUESTION: How does the AIDS/HIV rate impact South Africa today — has it shifted since this was written?
• XREF: connects to: Post-apartheid sovereignty governs the quality of living but not who lives — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1628