LETTER: Increasing grants is a political con trick
The government should have done more to help the homeless and unemployed before the virus outbreak
23 April 2020 - 14:29
I am a small-business owner staring liquidation in the face. This will have a devastating effect on at least nine families — a small number in the scheme of things but a situation now replicated many thousands of times over throughout SA.
I have listened to the government telling us about how important it is that we prevent Covid-19 from spreading too quickly, and I totally agree. However, we have passed the point where the devastating economic impact of the total lockdown has become worse than that which may ever be felt as the result of the deterioration in our national health...
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