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South Africa's shuttered storefronts a sign of economic pain
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JOHANNESBURG – It's been more than three weeks since Moses equipped a kitchen, Yambu welded a gate and Mboni sold almost everything.
For their shops and others on Soweto’s deserted Luthuli Street, it could be weeks, if ever, before they see business again. South Africa has been on lockdown except for essential services to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
If the results so far appear promising — crime at its lowest level in years, a downtown Johannesburg seemingly free of air pollution — there is a toll.
Small businesses like these cannot operate. There's a Solly's Electronics Store with no sign of Solly, and brightly painted signs with now-empty promises: “U call we deliver.” “Same day service.” “Open." The biggest collateral damage in
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