Up to 70% of the country's hair and beauty salons, spas and tattoo parlours face closure as their businesses remain under lockdown.
Grobler told TimesLIVE on Monday that the EOHCB noted with regret that the personal care sector remains closed.
“In schedule two, where the sectors that may not reopen are listed, the draft document stated that personal care remains closed 'unless 1.5m social distancing between customer' is possible. If this rider is excluded in the gazette, then we are stuck and government did not accept our submission. If it is in, we have an avenue to start working and only need to clarify whether it will be with the phased-in process of level 4 regulations or 100% with level 3 regulations.
Since the start of the lockdown, thousands of workers in the beauty industry poured out their desperation in submissions to national government. They spoke about losing their rental spaces, not being able to pay staff and closing up shop.
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