The current Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the entrenched inequality in South Africa, which has racial connotations to it. As per the recent statistics, over 50 percent of South Africans are living in poverty in which Africans are the majority, and unemployment rates are on an all-time high at 32.5 percent. Poverty, inequality and unemployment can be traced from the colonial and apartheid epoch that established a Manichean society in South Africa by compartmentalisation of hierarchical society between four different race groups: whites, Indians, coloureds, and Africans.