Timing is everything, and I can only presume the commissioner of the SA Revenue Services is having nightmares. For him to hear the president promising untold billions in relief while this economic disaster of a lockdown continues, must be like standing on the beach as a tsunami sucks the water back, knowing that the coming wave will be devastating.
April is not where the financial disaster is going to be felt — that is only going to start in May and beyond. It will be then that the millions who did not get paid April salaries by small and medium-sized businesses will start realising that the cupboard is bare...
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