The National Income Dynamics Study: Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (Nids-Cram) on the devastating effects of Covid-19 on SA unemployment (Cover Story, July 16-22) (https://www.businesslive.co.za/fm/features/cover-story/2020-07-15-the-jobs-reckoning-is-here/) makes for shocking but not totally unexpected reading.
Three-million South Africans lost their jobs between February and April, with 1.5-million more losing their income through being furloughed. Job losses were concentrated among women (2-million of the jobs lost). Almost half of all survey respondents (47%) reported that they ran out of money to buy food in April...
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