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‘THE STATE IS INEXPERIENCED, ILL-EQUIPPED AND INEPT’

There’s panic in the air as warnings of a resurgence of Covid-19 infections become louder each day. To say small businesses are panicking is an understatement.

To be frank, we are defecating cement blocks at the prospect of the economy closing down again as we fear the prospect of a hard lockdown if a second wave becomes a reality.

The undeniable truth is that our government is inexperienced, ill-quipped and, frankly, inept when it comes to supporting small business growth and development, let alone rescuing businesses in the middle of a pandemic. This is despite the existence of a whole department of small business development, apparently set up to anchor

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