June 16, known as Youth Day in South Africa, marked 114 days since the first case of Covid-19 in South Africa was reported. This year, this day passed in the stillness of the solstice, shorn of the typical commemorative fanfare of its salience in the history of the liberation struggle. The nation is in a pensive mood. Its trepidation is discernibly intense as it muses its fate. Covid-19 is on the rampage. Its spread is alarming. As the winter season sets in, experts warn of a spike. The metropolises are increasingly becoming the epicentre of the virus. Its aftermaths are ghastly to contemplate. For, Covid-19 does not only spawn a health crisis but a question of political economy. It upends the interaction of politics and economics in a way that profoundly affects the economic morality of the social order and the commitment to the standard of humanity. At the receiving end of this is the youth, who, in their experience of the world as