2,000 Covid-19 deaths; Tito's shake-up budget; Tsogo Sun rescues Marriott hotels; back-to-work for hairdressers

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In today's news headlines:
* Almost 93,000 people in South Africa have tested positive for Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic;
* Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has told Parliamentarians that the Treasury plans to unveil “very serious and unusual changes” to its expenditure plans this week;
* Tsogo Sun has come to the rescue of thousands of jobs after Marriott announced it was closing three hotels;
* A bank set up by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa has awarded $1bn (R17.5bn) worth of emergency loan assistance to South Africa; and
* Hairdressers, tattoo artists and nail technicians are some of the people who can officially get back to work, with the government gazetting the rules of business at the weekend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
21 Jun 2020 1PM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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