Business Cheers Plans to Reopen South Africa’s Economy

  • Easing of lockdown will allow 8 million people back to work
  • Lockdown grows unsustainable in face of mounting job losses

Commuters walk through the Rea-Vaya Thokoza Park bus station in Johannesburg, on May 14.

Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg
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South African business leaders lauded the government’s plan to substantially ease a nationwide lockdown that’s crippled the economy, even as the number of the coronavirus cases grows exponentially.