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The rebuild begins: Experts estimate that repairing or rebuilding looted stores will take between a few months and two years, depending on the severity of the damage. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
ZUMAUNREST

Employment bloodbath on the cards

The unrest in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal has deepened the country’s unemployment crisis as the government mulls additional relief funding

  • Tunicia Phillips
8 min read
The panel found that, for the time being, further support should be confined to extending the social distress relief that was rolled out for the Covid-19 pandemic.
CADRE DEPLOYMENT

Real relief requires the reform of state recruitment

Covid-19 has exposed, among a host of other things, the glaring gaps that appear when the wrong people have been put in the job

  • Thokozani Chilenga Butao
4 min read