An unemployed building contractor advertised his skills in the hope of finding work during the Covid-19 lockdown. Picture: Tracey Adams/African News Agency (ANA) By Stephen Devereux, Alex van den Heever, Isobel Frye and Lynette Maart
The national state of disaster declared by the South African government on 15 March 2020 was a direct response to Covid-19. But that response inadvertently intensified three other existing disasters: poverty, unemployment and inequality. More South Africans are poor and unemployed now than before the lockdown was imposed. But some people in government and the private sector are richer than before, thanks to tender corruption […]
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