KwaDukuza offers lifeline to informal traders hit by pandemic Updated
Steve Bhengu
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KwaDukuza s confident its new relief fund will help prop up struggling informal traders, whose businesses have been dealt a severe blow by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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It s launched the Covid-19 Informal Traders Relief Fund and LED Start-Up programme that s set to benefit SMME operators as well.
The municipality s Sipho Mkhize says they ve witnessed, firsthand, how the outbreak and subsequent restrictions have shut the doors of businesses.
He says the aim of the program is to help those in the informal sector put food back on the table.