When South Africa emerged from the most severe of the COVID lockdowns in 2020, nearly one in three employable adults was jobless. The country’s escalating unemployment is a symptom of an unequal economy inherited from generations of colonial- and apartheid-era exploitation. Could a universal basic income be the answer to a more equitable post-carbon world? Leonie Joubert investigates. Economic exclusion deepens hunger and malnutrition. (Photo by Şehsuvar Şahin, CC BY 4.0 )
It was not a coincidence that a group of civil society organizations in South Africa handed to its government a Climate Justice Charter on World Food Day in […]
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