KHAYA SITHOLE: Double-lockdown a punch in the stomach for SA
Being downgraded to junk on top of the coronavirus pandemic leaves our country vulnerable
01 April 2020 - 17:53
In the last week of March 2020, SA found itself plunged into a confrontation with unprecedented lockdowns.
The lockdowns came in two forms — one unexpected and another long expected. The effect of the coronavirus pandemic worldwide has become a daily learning saga for policymakers, regulators and citizens. The pervasive scale of the pandemic — affecting countries and personalities of all social classes and privileges — has forced a world defined by a gradual gravitation towards polarisation to revisit the concept of shared solidarity...
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