Debate is raging whether South Africa can afford introducing a universal basic income grant – or whether we need to pull the purse strings a little tighter. The R350 social relief distress grant brought a modicum of assistance to the poorest South Africans during the pandemic, but the increasingly dire state of the economy had many debating whether to introduce it permanently. Of course social grants have been politicised and even weaponised in this country with the governing ANC quick to tell communities a vote for any other party would result in the social security rug being pulled out […]
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