Is your business ready for the next pandemic?

Gustav Praekelt

In the first thirty-six weeks of the COVID-19 lockdown in South Africa, TV reporter Liabo Setho had profiled thirty-six small businesses. At a time when lives and livelihoods were lost daily, these businesses—run by gritty, tenacious entrepreneurs—found ways to stay open, one way or another. Liabo shares a passionate account of stories from her beat in this punchy piece of reportage.

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Liabo is a senior broadcasting business reporter at the SABC with more than 15 years of experience. Through her consistent profiling of small to medium enterprises on the public broadcasters’ OnPoint programme, she has cemented her role as a champion for these enterprises.