Jobs bloodbath: When survival means making a plan

SA shed 2.2-million jobs in the second quarter of 2020 during the worst of the Covid-19 hard lockdown, Stats SA data released this week shows. Philosopher Plato's expression, that necessity if the mother of invention, kicked in for many South Africans, had to think fast in a bid to keep food on the table and a roof over their heads. Here's how some of them did it

04 October 2020 - 00:00 By Sunday Times

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