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
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… Read more on https://afdb.africa-newsroom.com/press/social-safety-nets-community-spirit-help-south-african-mother-through-covid19-crisis?lang=en
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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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