Basic income activists have kept the idea of basic income on the edge of the policy-making agenda in South Africa for more than twenty years, but proposals have not gained significant support within the policy-making and political elite. Nor has the idea served to mobilise popular support. ...
South Africa's cash giveaway plan is not universal basic income, experts say By Theron Mohamed See original post here. A South African policy proposal is being hailed as the first national universal basic income plan. However, experts say it’s promising but would pay too little to too fe...
Poverty, human rights law and socio-economic realities in South Africa As in many other African countries this problem of poverty is compounded by the HIV/AIDS pandemic; by high levels of unemployment; by low levels of education; and by a number of other factors. Today, South Africa has one...
In many developed countries, higher-income people receive more benefits than lower-income people, though this is sometimes by design rather than a result of corruption. The highest-earning 20% receive a greater share of the average transfer than the lowest-earning 20% in South Korea, Hungary, ...
Former leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA) and Chief Activist of the One South Africa Movement (OSA) Mmusi Maimane, in partnership with former DA Member of Parliament (MP) and founder of Rightful Share: An income movement Karen Jooste unveiled their p
The Basic Income Gant (BIG) is on everybody's lips at the moment. The South African government has been debating the pros and cons of the grant for as long as we have been a democracy. In August this year, the government implemented a Covid relief grant of R350, which some see as ...
Basic income is a universal income grant available to every citizen without means test or work requirement. Academic discussion of basic income and related policies has been growing in the fields of economics, philosophy, political science, sociology, an
Suri:Yeah, good question. I mean, I hope so. We do talk to policymakers, we do try to get information out, even if it’s not them hunting us down. And not just Kenya, we present to other places too, who are interested. Some of our work was used in the South Africa COVID respo...
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In some developing countries (particularly in south and west Asia and north Africa) the majority of women do not participate in the income-earning labor force (in India the proportion of such adult women is as high as three-quarters), as they are mostly in unpaid domestic and care-giv...