A Basic Income Grant could redefine what it means to be South African
There is a real sense in which social security in the form of cash transfers contributes to a feeling of citizenship among beneficiaries. This phenomenon becomes meaningful in the South African context, where 28 years of failed economic policy largely favouring austerity has done little to combat nationwide inequality and poverty.
In international law, a citizen is broadly defined as a person whom a state is entitled to protect. In following the law, with respect to the responsibilities it demands, we afford the status of legal citizenship […]
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