Brett Herron, secretary-general of the GOOD party, recently wrote an article for Daily Maverick which that publication headlined “South Africa’s shocking jobless figures make a basic income grant a social, moral, and historical imperative”.
Mr Herron went on to assert: “To those who say such a grant is unaffordable, the obvious answer is that South Africa cannot afford not to.” This is a debating point, not an argument. A “basic income grant” (BIG) is both unaffordable and undesirable.
Since the African National Congress (ANC) came to power in 1994, social spending (mainly education, welfare, health, and housing) has risen from 45% […]
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