This week I accompanied my wife to apply for a new South African passport at a Home Affairs Office that I will not name but located within the Greater Cape Town area. The office opens its doors at 8am but when we arrived just after 6:30am on a midweek morning the queue stretched along the front of building and around a corner. This was where we joined the queue of South Africans patiently waiting in an orderly fashion in the dark for the doors to open. While most people were wearing masks there was no social distancing. Only as it became light did I notice the red lines painted on…