THE IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON BLACK-OWNED SMALL AND MICRO-BUSINESSES IN SOUTH AFRICAKola Olusola OdekuAllied Business Academies
TB is a serious infectious disease, which mainly affects the lungs – and Green is concerned about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on TB patients.CLICK: HOW CHALLENGE TRIALS WERE USED TO TRY TO CURE THE COMMON COLD"I think it's going to prevent treatment, m...
JOHANNESBURG, April 21 (Xinhua) -- About 65 percent of South African businesses believed that the COVID-19 pandemic will impact their business worse than the 2008/09 global financial crisis, a survey by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said on Tuesday. Stats SA released a survey about the...
In a statement, AMP blamed the unexpected and devastating impact ofCOVID19for its downfall. Government Stimulus plan President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the government’s commitment to rescue distressed businesses with a R500-billion ($27 billion) stimulus plan. Out of this, R200 billion will be e...
(a) the impact/problem that fishers encountered during COVID-19 (e.g., livelihoods and financial hardship, food security, stress and violence, fisheries market chain disruptions, other market chain disruptions and, other shocks and disturbances); and (b) the adaptation response by the fishers (...
Credit rating agency S&P Global Ratings said in a report on March 31 that South Africa's economy is forecast to contract by 2.7 percent in 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic spreads globally.Businesses in Ghana, one of the world's top-ten fastest growing economies, are also facing tough ...
In this paper we assess the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on school energy usage and quantify the financial savings and environmental impact of these changes. The assessment was done to understand the impact of occupancy on the energy requirements of a school (the delta), and also to ...
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemicis causing untold human suffering across Africa and is likely to leave an indelible impact on the continent’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We define SMEs as “a separate and distinct business entity, together with its branches or subsidiaries, if a...
Economists have described the outbreak as a "crisis" that would negatively impact the economy. "Port congestion at Durban (the third populous city in South Africa) and other locations meant that many businesses were forced to limit activity, with exports to China also decreasing," said David Owe...
Vaccinations for COVID019 are shown at the Roi Baudouin hospital in the town of Guediawaye in Senegal on Oct. 27, 2021. The emergency authorizations of several COVID-19 vaccines in late 2020 and early 2021 led the world to its next phase of the pandemic: getting these novel shots into ...