‘The basic income grant is not a policy choice for the government in South Africa, it is a policy mandate… it is a positive obligation. What we have at the moment is an unlawful situation in terms of what the Constitution requires we do to ensure equality and to ensure a floor of socioeconomic rights.’ — Maverick Citizen editor Mark Heywood. (Photo: Adobestock) ‘We need to stop making people prove their poverty in this country — the facts prove poverty… there is an indignity about having to prove poverty that we must steer away from,’ says a social development […]
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