Replacing rigid lockdown with a ‘trim down’ approach vital to SA’s economic recovery – IRR
16 April 2020
To save #LivesAndLivelihoods and get SMMEs and the economy into a state of recovery, the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) will today call on the government to abandon its rigid lockdown strategy in favour of a ‘trim down’ approach.
Following constructive engagement with government officials on its earlier policy recommendations, the IRR will deliver a memorandum on its ‘trim down’ proposal to the Presidency, the Minister of Health, of Trade and Industry, and Finance. The memorandum sets out the significant risks of an ‘all pain, no gain’ lockdown, and makes the case for an alternative approach.
The four elements of the ‘trim down’ alternative are:
Trim down state expenditure;