EDITORIAL COMMENT : Business needs help to fix lockdown damage
As businesses re-open after the two-month level four lockdown, there will be economic damage especially in the sectors where the small and medium enterprises dominate and in the informal sector with working capital diminished as money was used to buy food and pay other critical bills.
Even among the industrialists, who were largely able to remain open, there are swathes of companies according to the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries that have seen sharply reduced output following reduced demand as spending power decreased, along with companies still operating at close on 90 percent capacity use.