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and it's still about us on the brink he spoke to several leading experts in the film. good sense. the worst of the lockdowns may be over but you've gone just economy means in tatters times were already tough now closed schools and nightly curfews are changing the business and labor landscapes and for in terms of the sorely missed. on the show the pressure on south africa's government grows after new figures show an incredible contraction in the economy the u.n. now warns a turnaround. and 2020 has been an impossible year for a vet. planners go to homburg where

a concert organizer is testing the waters once again. welcome to the show and souvenirs in berlin it's good to have you with us uganda introduced one of the most stringent lockdowns in africa back in march banning cars and public gatherings shutting down shopping centers and schools and beginning a nighttime curfew and most of those measures have been relaxed and soon but schools remain closed and the curfew still in place measures that combined with a lack of tourists has hit the country hard. breaking up stones in the burning sun is back breaking work. and it's mostly women and children who do it here at this quarry on the outskirts of cum pala many of them fled the violent conflict in northern uganda many years ago. without school education they have little choice but to take this job to survive. they are going to go over there looking to get. some days we go back home with as little as

a dollar spending on your energy. or no money is barely enough to buy food and groceries because most times the prices are too high so we're just surviving and living hand to mouth. and i mean. since the outbreak of the coronavirus one demick in uganda parents like irene have been bringing their children to the quarry to work. their families need the money. so that needs to be ok because. they are the most that means he's going to forget it does that is. that what. that's. like all countries uganda is suffering from the economic consequences of the pandemic. and here too is the poorest who are worst affected. all

right for more on those deja vu correspondent julius mugabo joins me on the phone now from kampala julius we just saw a piece there on uganda what is it that's made the country's lockdown so painful for the economy i think what has made it so painful to very many people gets back to the facility and how it's being designed economically ugandan niger they do not have a very good saving culture they do not on waste so much and they do not save so much so every cd on today they spend to be spending work for only the means so much to fund these it need to look to businesses but now we might they've never experienced anything like manner of them hide in the idea that even if it will happen when there are going to work and it's not been a day it's not a week these are months of people in a quirky story phoned already a community which was already suffering the effects of poverty i think could get

mentioned from begin to look doesn't just make things worse because people do not have any savings schemes radical groups so they get blinded from took down there was no question there was nothing like to reach the duration they just suffered the consequences there it's all right many people living hand to mouth as the peace mentioned in the terms of industry has been especially hard hit in uganda how important is that to the economy there. tourism is very important to uganda because as an economy each heavily relies on imports to balance trade it needs to on foreign exchange it needs to i'm doing that so that it can spin because now to our ism is one of the few systems that brings dollars apart from coffee and really 24 hours and bring the dollars more than one conceives $1000000000.00 the i don't know if it has a country like ugandan are you going to is in fact a color tonight and the mystic tours so if the europeans and americans are not flying to the country to see the attraction see and spend money because in fact

there is practically down so no dollars coming. towards me so important where the 2 economies because it brings in dollars now that the anaconda trouble for the economy and see the not getting any better to its briefly if you could is there any government help that's been offered for families workers. talking about health i would tell you that the government. people engage me with different stakeholders to see that it can help people but when you speak to people here would tell you that there's nothing else i thought of that would really that would be see beauty during good looks down some we have the beginning of the look you know much about these issues to be come down to the ordinary person definitely 50 cent of the fee teaching businesses have been closed above the look out of employment the government has not they were not prepared and they are highly belies an idea

statement by their princeton that the judge should get some money i think to give the thirty's give money and people continue to pay their loans and pay the great you know he has even during the time that businesses were close so it's such a very hard situation for many ugandans and the bigger those would be so the economy is going to carry her situation all right unfortunately we have to beat it there for now with hopefully more good news or better news to come in the future. reporting from kampala thank you very much. now as we reported tuesday new economic data from south africa is a gut punch a minus 51 percent annual growth rate in the 2nd quarter now south africans are reacting for many the shocking figures however tell them what they already knew something needs to change. cleaning their taxis as all these drivers can do at the moment that's because many customers are staying away or shopping malls are also looking empty even though many lock down restrictions have been eased people

are still cautious when it comes to spending their money. because of it's almost hard to put out the bridge to somebody but there are jobs it's all if you know i couldn't you just didn't doubt it because of the no dollars 1st does back to my 1st husband you know better than most 5 to 6 months so it's going to be difficult for him but i was told to put the economy is still recovering or is still going through this phase so it's going to take a long time for people to actually have to drive employment again for people to be able to sell the stuff you know maybe you'll get back to economics you know that used to be different if we're going to get worse before it gets better experts say the economic collapse wasn't a student of the pandemic they say the government's failure to deliver on promises of reforms have made the situation much worse when you look at the reports where it will be different and rating agencies they have indicated that south african needs

to restructure its economy for and implemented reforms to recover and have a positive economy a trajectory president cyril ram opposed sob responded to the g.d.p. figure saying in a statement they reflect the severe impact of the pandemic and that they should spur all south africans to do all they can to help rebuild the economy but he didn't say how that's supposed to happen. the u.n. forecasts that it will take around 5 years for south africa's economic activity to return to preplan demick levels. and out of some of the other business stories making headlines the world's largest beef exporter brazil has seen a sharp fall in shipments to europe germany has imported around a quarter less beef with restaurants closed down during lockdown in contrast sales to china have risen by 65 percent. a german court has approved prosecutors' request

to put former volkswagen c.e.o. martin winterkorn on trial for fraud 5 years after the company's diesel emissions scandal it was under winter corn that the carmaker developed and sold cars with emissions cheating software the scandal has cost the company billions and restitution. all right trade fairs large exhibitions concerts canceled in large swathes of the past year to the detriment of the businesses involved but also the organizers well crowds of those organizers took to the street wednesday in berlin demanding financial aid from the government groups behind the protests event organizers are seeing revenue losses up to 80 and 100 percent even and they're threatened with closures less something changes. some are trying to get creative in the mean time organizing events that it hears regulations but still struggle to make money. again at last belgian singer

songwriter. was about. right in the middle of humber port where cruise tourists would normally park their cars for the duration. the effort behind the event is enormous everyone in the audience gets a firm seat swapping seats is strictly forbidden and only $1000.00 tickets are available and no more. but we've got exactly the same inputs we still have to cover the same floor area with sound. basically a concert like any other just with far fewer fans and lower sales. what it means is that everything on stage and all the technology on the personal we need it would normally be enough to cater to find $10000.00 fans for the city told we're only allowed $1000.00 you can easily see that what we're doing is not very sensible from a business point of view. restrictions and low profits are also affecting the small

vendors who sell food and drinks at events. cocktail mixer mr mandrel lost all his contracts when big events came out of the lock down in spring this year he's grateful for every concert that offers him a platform even if his sales remain low. and on the list it offers a glimmer of hope and a little touch of normality. yeah i'll be in 5 as a value. definitely this is basically our 1st concert sense a lockdown and we're happy to be here today and we're going to have a great evening. the tickets here start at $51.00 euro's not overly expensive it costs $10.00 euro's more for a seat in a wooden box the event agency has made using pallets 1st super social distancing. fresh air lovely weather got a bit of sun again what more can you want. seems even more cuddly than creek corona

. your look closer in. for the event agency in the open air concerts in homburg port are a success but not a long term solution. thus i'm going to run a structure of the most are we really want to know now if we can take up again next year where we left off last year without that prospectors the entire sector will just cave in completely. unfortunately right now no one anywhere is holding out the prospect of better times ahead. and that's it for me in the team thanks for watching.

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