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SAfm: The SRD grant, does that solve our poverty, inequality?

Isobel Frye, Director of the Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute dissects the newly implemented Social Relief of Distress grant and what it is...

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: Post-Apartheid Inequality Sparks Frustration and Fury

"A decent Standard of Living is possible and doable," Isobel Frye, Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute. An article from Bloomberg, Businessweek: The...

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...

PowerFM: Isobel Frye speaks on the dire situation of Poverty

How dire is the situation of poverty? Frye explains that we are in an incredibly serious situation, and that 13 million people were living...

SABCnews: Treasury announces a R36.1 billion Social Relief Fund

"If there is a will, we will find a way to find the money." – Isobel Frye, Director at the Studies in Poverty and...

SAfm: The Talking Point with Isobel Frye and Cathy Mohlahlana

“We need to have an urgent humanitarian intervention,” – Isobel Frye The Director of Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute, Isobel Frye, makes...

Newzroom Afrika: Government reintroduces R350 Social Relief Grant, discussion with Isobel Frye and the urgency of a Basic Income Grant

“This is the time when political will comes forward, the vision that we have for a Decent Standard of Living is affordable and doable.’...

eNCA: R350 Social Relief of Distress Grant, discussion with Isobel Frye

“Recognising the magnitude of this response, we hoped it would have been seamless.” – Isobel Frye, Director of the Studies in Poverty and...

The Watchdog outlines the need for a Basic Income Grant

The Watchdog SABC news, based on reports from the Institute of Economic Justice, discusses how the basic income grant may be financed by a...

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....