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WATCH: How Covid-19 has accelerated SA’s jobs haemorrhage

Business Times contributing editor Hilary Joffe and a panel of journalists discuss stories making the news in the latest edition of Editing Allowed

16 July 2020 - 11:25 Business Day TV
Picture: Gallo Images/Dino Lloyd
Picture: Gallo Images/Dino Lloyd

Business Times contributing editor Hilary Joffe and the panel discuss the Financial Mail’s cover story that sheds light on how many jobs have been lost due to the pandemic.

The team also discusses the government’s reintroduction of the alcohol ban, along with the economic implications of the state’s plans for struggling SAA.

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