President Cyril Ramaphosa's R500bn social relief and economic support package, which amounts to about 10% of SA's GDP, has been welcomed by political parties.

Ramaphosa on Tuesday evening addressed the nation on SA's economic response to the pandemic, which he said should be equal to the scale of the disruption the novel coronavirus was causing...

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