Cape Town – Organisations and academics have urged the government to implement the mooted basic income grant amid rising unemployment, poverty and hunger.
Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu has now indicated that implementation of such a grant would not be possible before March 2021.
Ministerial spokesperson Lumka Oliphant said the discussions were at an early stage.The organisations questioned the ruling party’s “political will” to implement the grant, adding that while expenditure trade-offs were “inevitable”, these should not come at the expense of starvation of the poor.Zulu announced the basic income grant at a recent briefing on the response to Covid-19 and […]
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