Take-home pay data shows South Africa has hit the unemployment iceberg

In one of the first concrete signs of the unemployment bloodbath due to the Covid-19 lockdown, data from the national payments system shows a decline of more than 13% in May in the number of people receiving salaries and wages in comparison with a year ago. ..

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