According to the African Development Bank’s 2021 African Economic Outlook report, around 2.6 million South Africans have lost their jobs since the COVID-19 pandemic hit,
Perhaps, this fact will help to explain why some 40 km outside Cape Town, Leebah Bessick, usually wipes sweat from her forehead as she digs a pitchfork into the earth at a neighbourhood community garden.
It’s an unseasonably hot day there at Blackheath Secondary School and even a shady corner of the garden offers Bessick and the other gardeners little respite from the midday sun.
Still, she finds refuge there these days after enduring a year of hardship and unemployment caused by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which hit South Africans hard.
Social safety nets, community spirit help South African mother through Covid-19 crisis
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About 2.6 million South Africans have lost their jobs since the pandemic hit
Around 40 km outside Cape Town, Leebah Bessick wipes sweat from her forehead as she digs a pitchfork into the earth at a neighbourhood community garden. It’s an unseasonably hot day here at Blackheath Secondary School and even a shady corner of the garden offers Bessick and the other gardeners little respite from the midday sun.
Still, she finds refuge here these days after enduring a year of hardship and unemployment caused by the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, which hit South Africans hard.
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Coronation Street star Will Mellor has told how a barrage of family tragedies left him in a dark “cloud” of dizzy spells and blurred vision.
Nominations have now closed for the DA candidates hoping to stand as Cape Town mayor, with three high-profile names – Dan Plato, Bonginkosi Madikizela and Geordin Hill-Lewis – confirmed as being in contestation for the position.
This is one of the most sought-after positions within the party, because it is regarded as a safe seat. The smart money is still on the DA to comfortably take the Cape metro in the local government elections this year, so the candidate who emerges victorious from the DA’s internal selection process will almost certainly end up wearing the mayoral chain in Cape Town and wielding actual political power.
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