Op-ed: A basic income grant is urgent if we are to avoid the next social explosion that destroys our common humanity

Op-ed: A basic income grant is urgent if we are to avoid the next social explosion that destroys our common humanity

The following is an Op-ed by Isobel Frye on how a basic income grant will be beneficial to the labour force as well as...

South Africa: Basic income supporters put the issue back on the table

South Africa: Basic income supporters put the issue back on the table

Following the third wave of Covid-19 and the riots last month, the country has put in place a monthly aid of 350 rand -...

We must support SA women with a BIG, they uphold the rest of society

We must support SA women with a BIG, they uphold the rest of society

Our President strikingly referred to gender-based violence (GBV) in South Africa the ‘second pandemic’ affecting our nation alongside the Covid-19 pandemic that disrupted the...

Press Release: No Cause For Celebration this Women’s Month – Advocacy Groups Outraged

Press Release: No Cause For Celebration this Women’s Month – Advocacy Groups Outraged

Press Release  For Immediate Release  06 August 2021    No Cause For Celebration this Women’s Month - Advocacy Groups  Outraged     South Africa...

Statement of the NEDLAC Community Constituency on the reintroduction of the R350 SRoD Grant

Statement of the NEDLAC Community Constituency on the reintroduction of the R350 SRoD Grant

The Community Constituency welcomes the contents of the media briefing of the Minister of Social Development today, 4 August 2021. In the briefing, the...

Article: South Africa has run out of options, say economists

Article: South Africa has run out of options, say economists

"The debate on the social safety net has shifted since the July unrest – and there is now broader agreement that extreme poverty and...

Media Advisory: Mandela Day Lecture: SPII Proposes BIG Solutions to Growing Poverty and Unrest is SA

Media Advisory: Mandela Day Lecture: SPII Proposes BIG Solutions to Growing Poverty and Unrest is SA

Media Advisory  For Immediate Release  19 July 2021   SOUTH AFRICA - During a panel discussion reflecting on former president Nelson Mandela’s legacy in...

Op-ed: #UnrestSA: Painful corrective or forerunner of things to come?

Op-ed: #UnrestSA: Painful corrective or forerunner of things to come?

Social justice activists have tried repeatedly to present this data to policymakers over growing inequalities and to how that policy choices are not reflective...

Op-ed: We need a real commitment to poverty relief’s Basic Income Grant idea, not more talk from the ANC

Op-ed: We need a real commitment to poverty relief’s Basic Income Grant idea, not more talk from the ANC

  In his January 8 speech, President Cyril Ramaphosa committed the ANC to “intensify other poverty alleviation measures alongside the economic recovery. This year, the ANC, government...

Press Release: 40 Civil Society Organisations: ‘We Want R1,268 For All Now’

Press Release: 40 Civil Society Organisations: ‘We Want R1,268 For All Now’

PRESS RELEASE  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FRIDAY 16 JULY 2021     40 CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS: ‘WE WANT R1,268 FOR ALL NOW’   SOUTH AFRICA:...

Press Release: Civil Society Forges Plan Toward A Basic Income Grant of R1,268 For All

Press Release: Civil Society Forges Plan Toward A Basic Income Grant of R1,268 For All

PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY 15 JULY 2021 We demand that the state  provides a universal basic income grant of R1 268 to...

Press Release: SA Must Not Let Its Women Starve During Covid Pandemic

Press Release: SA Must Not Let Its Women Starve During Covid Pandemic

Press Release    Johannesburg, July 8, 2021 - South Africa is spiralling into an unbearable rate of poverty which our leadership can no longer...

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