Scandal Actress Gcina Nkosi Shares Her Financial Struggles Due To The Lockdown. Many people lost their jobs when the pandemic brought about the lockdown and its limiting restrictions. Many artist have revealed how they struggled financially during the lockdown and Scandal actress Gcina Nkosi has opened up about how she was faced with financial challenges during lockdown level 5.
Speaking to TshiaLive, actress Gcina Nkosi opened up about financial struggles during the beginning of the coronavirus lockdown when actors couldn’t work. Nkosi revealed the T’s & C’s of her acting contract whereby she doesn’t get paid if she doesn’t work.
“There were days when I remember the first shutdown: We didn’t shoot, we didn’t work. We have made contracts whereby no work = no pay. We suffered a lot. We couldn’t do anything because we weren’t working, we couldn’t pay our rent, our lease and all those things” Gcina said.
Nkosi shared the hardships of being alone and not being able to travel back to her home to see her family. She was in Johannesburg alone for three months and it weighed heavy on her.
“I couldn’t travel back home. I had to be in Joburg for three months away from my family and I am there alone. It was too much. I was affected a lot” she said.
Gcina shared her opinions regarding how the government have handled the pandemic stating that they should be making decisions for the country taking into consideration all of its people, otherwise the country is headed for doomsday.
“If they can sit down and talk about this as politicians and as people of SA, who love their country, I think they can come up with a good solution, to make this country a better place again, if they carry on like this, I don’t see us surviving until 2050” she said.
