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Crisis!



South Africa is in crisis and no matter how ignorant you are, you know that we are in chaos.First we are still dealing with power failure which costs us a lot of production time and we are losing money. 

Now as small businesses we struggle to make ends meet due to not having an alternative source of power we find it hard to run and make money.
The sad reality is that this will be going on for some time.

This is a national problem minding the technical recession we are in.
But we need to persist and be innovative on how we go about finding alternative power.

 How do we maintain business in such hard times?

And just as we are recovering from load-shedding.
We are told of Corona virus.
This pandemic is freaking us out and people are told to stay at home but how realistic is that.?
It is day 2 of not going anywhere but I have had enough. Business has not opened in the past two days and I am feeling the load already.

Like what are we supposed to be doing? 
Some businesses are dependent on customer contact, how now do we  work?.

Our health is at risk and honestly I feel like not much information is given to us expect that we wash our hands.

It is a burden to us to then educate ourselves and keep safe for the well being of our businesses.

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