NEIL COLEMAN: Basic income grant is needed to avert social upheaval

NEIL COLEMAN: Basic income grant is needed to avert social upheaval

Basic Income. Picture 123RF Borislav Marinic Debate has been raging in these columns around the introduction of a basic income grant (BIG) in the face of rising levels of poverty and hunger in SA.

Views are sharply polarised, with unions and civil society campaigning for the introduction of a BIG starting at a minimum of the food poverty line (currently R624), and sections of the government — particularly the Treasury — and organised business strongly opposing it, despite conflicting signals from the president on the matter (“ Treasury cites fiscal stability as it seeks to pare down income grant ”, […]

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