Thousands of South Africans battled this month to obtain their social grants due to glitches. What this "glitch" on the part of our Postbank has shown us, in a very stark manner, is that we simply cannot do without a social welfare system, writes Oscar van Heerde n .
I have written extensively on the need for a basic income grant, and my argument is rather rudimentary: if our private sector and government collectively fail to create jobs for our people, then we must use other instruments, such as tax, to put cash in hand of all those deserving […]
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