MAVERICK CITIZEN OP-ED: South Africa’s time for a basic income grant has come – but the ANC is still apprehensive and non-committal

MAVERICK CITIZEN OP-ED: South Africa’s time for a basic income grant has come – but the ANC is still apprehensive and non-committal

(Photo: Waldo Swiegers / Bloomberg via Getty Images) Following the 2003 rejection of a basic income grant, the debate in South Africa has been exceptionally quiet. It was not until the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic that it made its way back on to the table – a debate, and a grant, that is way overdue.

On Monday, 25 January, President Cyril Ramaphosa tweeted that during the ANC National Executive Committee’s lekgotla over the weekend, it was agreed that there is a need to “consider the extension of basic income relief to unemployed people who do not receive […]

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