The government must begin to work towards a universal basic income for all. But until social assistance for the unemployed is made permanent, the Black Sash is calling for the Covid-19 increase of R250 per month to be made permanent for all grants and for the immediate increase of the reinstated Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress grant to at least the Food Poverty Line, currently pegged at R585.
August was a month that demanded that we reflect. Reflect on where we have come from and on the kind of society we are striving for. In August we remembered […]
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