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Letter: Judith’s Prudence, Daily Maverick

‘Now is the winter of our discontent…’ Shakespeare: Richard III, spoken by Gloucester 'Despair is the state we fall into when our imagination fails....

New calls for the basic income grant – Cape Talk radio

"I think it is fair to say now before ever there are signals that the basic income grant is being considered by government."...

The Academy of Science in South Africa (ASSAf), in partnership with the South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) Chair in Social Policy at the University of South Africa (UNISA), cordially invites you to the webinar outlining Inequality and Poverty

What must be done if the state is to be capable of poverty and inequality reduction? In the context of weak state capacity and...

The importance of basic income grant is highlighted by the Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute

"The Poverty and Inequality Institute has emphasised the importance of a basic income grant of R1 268 per month – saying people living on...

BIG is best: Civil society campaign highlights urgency of basic income grant after recent looting

"If the recent unrest in parts of Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal has shown us anything, it is that it has never been more urgent to...

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?

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

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...

The Women’s Legal Centre (WLC), Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute (SPII), Black Sash, and #paythegrants invite you to a meeting to discuss a national strategy for Universal Basic Income.

Transform not Reform. Strategic Meeting to Advance National Strategy for universal Basic Income and Recognition of the Care Economy as first step to building...

SABCnews: Unrest with Mpho Mhlongo on Poverty, Food Insecurity and the need for a Basic Income Grant

"Violent protests and looting are a major threat to food security," - Mpho Mhlongo, Company Secretary Intern and Researcher from the Studies in Poverty...

Launch of the SADC and Namibia BIG Reports

The following two research reports form part of a research project that SPII have undertaken over the past two years with funding support from...

Universal Basic Income in South Africa: Perspectives from Private Sector and Civil Society

The global pandemic has exposed an underlying gap which exists in South Africa and has stressed the need for a basic income grant due...