For a very large proportion of South Africans, paid work is neither a viable nor sufficient basis for a dignified life. Official unemployment, according to the so-called expanded rate, is over 46%, and close to one-third of people with paid work are not earning enough to afford basic living expenses. This is in a country battling three deadly pandemics — Aids, tuberculosis and Covid-19 — and already battered by climate change-triggered floods and droughts.
Current economic and social policy models are failing to protect millions against hunger, destitution and desperation. Hence, the growing demand for a universal basic income.
A growing […]
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