The government is dragging its feet on the announcement of a decision on the Covid-19 wage protection scheme, despite the uncertainty it has raised in business and labour sectors.

Business 4 SA (B4SA), a lobby group formed in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak to help the government with policy responses, earlier this week raised concerns that the national coronavirus command council had taken a unilateral decision not to extend the scheme...

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