“Nine hundred people are being retrenched. If those 900 people are responsible for four people in their household, 3,600 people are being indirectly impacted.”
“I think the magnitude is much bigger than we can imagine. The reality is we’re not going to see the scale of the damage quite as soon as we’d like to. It’ll probably happen in the next month to three months,” said Damonse.The organisation said in a statement that it was writing to trade and industry minister Ebrahim Patel and President Cyril Ramaphosa, seeking their intervention.
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