Granting freedom: The public demand for social protection

Granting freedom: The public demand for social protection

Gift of the Givers donate food hampers, blankets and Covid-19 and baby care packs to about 115 extremely poor families at Mesco Farm in Stellenbosch on 7 July 2021. (Photo: Gallo Images/Brenton Geach) While short-term measures to cushion the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic are welcome, South Africans want policy interventions to ease poverty and inequality.

Carin Runciman is the Director of the Centre for Social Change, University of Johannesburg (UJ). Benjamin Roberts is a Research Director and Coordinator of the South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS) in the Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES) research division, […]

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