In a recent address to the nation on the Covid-19 crisis, President Cyril Ramaphosa appealed to large companies not to invoke “force majeure” as a basis not to pay suppliers and landlords. Despite this, the media has reported on numerous instances of large retailers such as TFG, Pepkor, Pick n Pay and Dis-Chem refusing to pay all or some of their rentals for April due to the trading restrictions imposed by the lockdown.

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