SA Lockdown I Impact of COVID-19 on the poor: Isobel Frye

The South African Social Security Agency, which issues grants to about 17-million beneficiaries, said on Wednesday it had identified and fixed the problem that forced some recipients to return home empty-handed earlier this week. Last month President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a significant package of social and economic measures to address the fallout from the country’s COVID-19 lockdown. Now talk to us about the impact of COVID-19 on the poor we were joined via Skype by Isobel Frye is the director of the Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute.

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