Everyone wants a basic income grant, but who will pay for it seeing that the country’s 7.1 million taxpayers are already stretched so far?
Implementing a basic income grant requires a stable economic foundation. Picture: iStock We keep hearing promises from the president and minister of finance that a basic income grant is coming although many experts and studies have indicated that the country can simply not afford it.
Although President Cyril Ramaphosa promised a basic income grant at the ANC’s manifesto launch in February after saying in his State of the Nation Address that the ruling party will “progressively […]
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