Covid 19 pandemic contributing factor towards Unemployment, looting, Violence, and riots: Case study South Africa and Ethiopia

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has emerged as a global health and economic security threat with staggering cumulative incidence worldwide. Hospitals across the sphere are creating additional critical care capacity and limiting patient routine access to care for other diseases like HIV / Aids and tuberculosis (TB). The outbreak fuels panic in sub-Saharan Africa where the healthcare system is fragile in withstanding the disease.

The study aimed to assess whether Covid 19 is a contributing factor to unemployment, looting, and Violence in South Africa and Ethiopia. Knowledge and perception about Covid 19 will play a critical role in social change from people. Though there is relative knowledge of Covid 19 among urban and rural residents, there are still several misconceptions and understanding associated with the pandemic. Serious challenges that people are still facing are adherence and compliance to preventative measures and weak law enforcement from the countries. Some communities still leave in crowded areas and that increases the spread of the virus. More than 68 percent are unemployed since Covid was discovered.

For countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the major health system shifts into COVID-19, aggravated by poor health systems and ill-equipped healthcare facilities, is hampering the progress toward health target sets including HIV /Aids and TB. Since its discovery, the virus has spread globally, causing thousands of deaths, and having an enormous impact on our health systems and economies as well as political fights in some of the sub-Saharan countries. Data from the media will be collected and used for the study. Published and unpublished information on how looting and riots affected the two provinces namely Gauteng and KwaZulu Natal. The unrest in South Africa claimed more lives people and businesses have lapsed due to the looting and violence in KwaZulu Natal and Gauteng Province.

For this study the following techniques were used, simple survey, Interviews, Observation, and group focus, Data was collected by fieldwork visiting the business areas affected by Covid 19 and getting information utilizing calling people that I know. Random sampling was done for this study from businesspeople in Mpumalanga, Limpopo, KwaZulu Natal, and Gauteng to collect data from known and unknown businesspeople.