SA’s small companies brace for bitter lockdown
While government has undertaken to help small and medium-sized firms there is a lack of clarity on qualifying criteria
27 March 2020 - 05:09
Even before the announcement of the nationwide lockdown, which will shutter SA businesses for three weeks, Winny Makhombothi, owner of a small nail and beauty salon in Melville Johannesburg, had lost 90% of her clients in two weeks.
This was despite stocking up on sanitiser, cleaning products, wearing face masks and gloves and washing her hands so often they were rubbed raw. Clients were simply afraid in the face of the spreading coronavirus, and her diary emptied out...
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