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Small businesses plan to defeat razing virus

Every day, as the government continues to register lower numbers of Covid-19 infections, players in the informal economy see a glimpse of hope that the economic recession will finally come to an end.

Small scale traders, who have been hit hardest by the pandemic, pray that some form of a bailout by the government will come in handy. Hustle samples some of the small businesses which have been entangled in a health crisis that, step-by-step, has turned into an economic ogre.                  

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