(Illustrative image | Sources: EPA/ Kim Ludbrooks | Gallo Images / Alet Pretorius / Papi Morake | Bloomberg via Getty Images / Sharon Seretlo / Simon Dawson / Jason Alden / Waldo Swiegers) If the recent unrest in parts of Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal has shown us anything, it is that it has never been more urgent to reduce poverty and inequality. Civil society has issued a clarion call to government: the time for a universal basic income grant has come.
Give all adult South Africans R1,268 per month.
That is the call being made by a coalition of 40 […]
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