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Analysis of South Africa’s response to COVID-19 through the securitization theory
Mini Dissertation (MA (Security Studies))--University of Pretoria, 2024.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/94585 Analysis of South Africa’s response to COVID-19 through the securitization theory Henwood, Roland David sthela@citypower.co.za Thela, Sergeant A. UCTD Securitization De-securitization Securitizing Actor Referent Object Existential Threat Mini Dissertation (MA (Security Studies))--University of Pretoria, 2024. The study aimed to analyse South Africa’s response to COVID-19 and if it constituted a securitization act. To securitize means a securitizing actor elevates an issue beyond politics by treating it as an existential threat and adopt emergency and extra-ordinary measures to manage it. The study employed the securitization theory and its core elements to analyse President Cyril Ramaphosa's speeches in response to the COVID-19 outbreak to determine if specific words and phrases meet the securitization threshold. The study also explored the de-securitization concept, specifically, in relation to South Africa's COVID-19 alert level system as well as President Ramaphosa's speech to the nation delivered on 4 April 2022 which effectively terminated the national state of disaster and national lockdown. The study concludes that President Ramaphosa securitized COVID-19 to protect the people of South Africa and the economy against the existential threat caused by the virus. The main goal for securitizing COVID-19 was to flatten the curve to allow time for the health system to increase readiness, which was accomplished. The study further reveals that the alert level system created a de-securitization spectrum where the securitization levels were gradually relaxed towards a de-securitized spectrum. The president's speech on 4 April 2022 to terminate the national state of disaster and national lockdown marked a full de-securitization of COVID-19 and a return of the country to normalcy. The study provides a framework, which scholars can use to analyse non-traditional security issues, which may present existential threats to referent objects. Political Sciences MA (Security Studies) Unrestricted Faculty of Humanities 2024-02-14T07:44:48Z 2024-02-14T07:44:48Z 2024-02 2024-02 Mini Dissertation * A2024 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/94585 https://doi.org/10.74022/UPresearchdata.16274254.v2. en © 2023 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Securitization De-securitization Securitizing Actor Referent Object Existential Threat Analysis of South Africa’s response to COVID-19 through the securitization theory |
| title | Analysis of South Africa’s response to COVID-19 through the securitization theory |
| title_full | Analysis of South Africa’s response to COVID-19 through the securitization theory |
| title_fullStr | Analysis of South Africa’s response to COVID-19 through the securitization theory |
| title_full_unstemmed | Analysis of South Africa’s response to COVID-19 through the securitization theory |
| title_short | Analysis of South Africa’s response to COVID-19 through the securitization theory |
| title_sort | analysis of south africa s response to covid 19 through the securitization theory |
| topic | UCTD Securitization De-securitization Securitizing Actor Referent Object Existential Threat |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/94585 https://doi.org/10.74022/UPresearchdata.16274254.v2. |