With the opposition to South Africa’s Level 4 lockdown growing, along with calls for increasing the scope and scale of economic activity, several economic commentators are urging the authorities to take lessons from those countries that have already started to emerge from lockdowns and adapt them to local circumstances. Speaking during a webinar organised by the Centre for Development and Enterprise, Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies senior economist Neva Makgetla said that countries such as South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, New Zealand, Australia, Denmark, Germany and China had, as they eased lockdown restrictions, distinguished between industries based on their extent of public interaction, rather than using standard industrial classification codes.
