South Africa can no longer afford to delay introducing a basic income grant to cushion rising unemployment, extreme poverty and desperation.
Societies that fail to provide for the most basic needs of all citizens are unsustainable.
South Africa presently pays social grants for children and the elderly, but nothing to those of an employable age who are referred to in social development speak as the missing middle.When an economy fails to provide a path out of poverty through employment, relegating millions of people to an existence without access to any income, our society and the state have an obligation to step […]
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