Lockdown regulations that ignored the living conditions of shack-dwellers were 'astonishing', according to a new analysis.
academic development and support division had access to unreleased SA data from thethat has not yet been peer-reviewed, they said respondents living in shacks were much more likely to say they had not been able to comply with lockdown restrictions or had found it difficult to do so.
“There is little evidence that the SA authorities sought to work with them to develop alternatives to lockdown restrictions that are at best impracticable and at worst punitive for those who rely on casual, flexible, informal and opportunistic sources of in-person work,” said Ellison and his colleagues.
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