Ahead of our Roundtable discussion later today (about which more can be found here ), the Helen Suzman Foundation recently sat down with one of our research fellows, Prof. Alex van den Heever, to talk about the provision of basic income support (BIS) in South Africa. Alex is the Chair of the Expert Panel on Basic Income Support, commissioned by the International Labour Organisation and the Department of Social Development, that recently recommended that our existing Social Relief of Distress Grant (SRDG) serve as a platform for an expanded system of BIS which can then be improved incrementally over […]
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