ECS2603 - ASSIGNMENT 03 SOLUTIONS (SEMESTER 01 - 02) -ntroduction Due to the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic, South Africa was put on hard lockdown in March 2020. This meant that business operations in all sectors came to an abrupt stop and only the ones characterised as the ones providing “essential” services continued to operate. This adversely impacted the economy and the purpose of this report is to assess the extent to which economic growth was hindered by covid 19 in the year ...