President Cyril Ramaphosa says that the government is currently investigating the feasibility of introducing a basic income grant in South Africa.
Speaking at a Mandela Day memorial lecture on Sunday (18 July), the president said that the grant would show people ‘that the government cared’, BusinessDay reported.
“This will validate our people and show them that we are giving serious consideration to their lives.“We are giving active consideration to the grinding poverty that we continue to see in our country. We need to address the structural inequalities in our economy,” he said.The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has also […]
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