NEHAWU SUPPORTS THE CALLS FOR GOVERNMENT TO INTRODUCE THE UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME GRANT

Special Note: Happy 36th Anniversary to COSATU. Formed December 1985 The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union [NEHAWU] supports the calls for government to introduce the universal Basic Income Grant [BIG].

As NEHAWU, our support for the introduction of the universal basic income grant is based on the urgent need to address the economic crisis and the crisis of social reproduction facing nearly half of our population in the peripheral townships and rural areas, afflicting the working class youth and women in particular. This is evident with high levels of unemployment, poverty and inequality.

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