Twelve months ago, as the nation gradually realised that the fight against the pandemic was going to be a long haul, the government put together a series of economic relief packages supposed to amount to R500bn.

As we now know this was a foray into political optics rather than financial realities, mainly because its greatest single variable — the loan guarantee scheme — was not much more than a possible commitment...

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