Covid kills a decade of employment growth in SA 8 May 2021 Onslaught on jobs: People queue at the labour department in Jo’burg at the start of the pandemic to apply for Unemployment Insurance Fund payments, but informal sector workers are not covered. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G) One in every two jobs lost as a result of Covid-19’s economic onslaught was once held by an informal worker. This is according to a recent analysis of the effect of the pandemic on South Africa’s labour market. The research forms part of a Wits School of Governance project on the future of the country’s economy.Â...