SPII in the Media Archives - Page 6 of 11

Youth Unemployment: How Do We Diffuse a Ticking Time Bomb?

Young people in South Africa continue to face unemployment and Poverty. Danita Hingston from Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute joins EWN senior reporter...

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...

Leaving No One Behind While Building Back Better

As part of the famous annual Gothenburg Book Fair Global Square listen to conversations on 24 September between Ugo Gentilini of the World Bank...

ACT Ubumbano Learning Hub #5

Community voice, human dignity, and the demand for a Basic Income Grant. Monday, 14 September 2020, ACT Ubumbano hosted a webinar to reflect on...

Calls for Government to Make Relief Measures Permanent

Basic Income Grant could be a massive game changer which transforms South Africa’s social security system and could be a key contributor to lifting...

Social Protection in South Africa: Building back better post-COVID-19 – Webinar

Isobel Frye, Director of SPII, in a panel discussion about how South Africa’s social protection system can “build back better” after COVID-19 lockdown restrictions...

Challenges, Costs and Important Learnings From the Covid-19 Pandemic

Isobel Frye, Director of SPII, was invited by the Church of Sweden to unpack the challenges, costs and important learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic...

Rewired: Can South Africa afford not to implement a BIG?

Can we afford NOT to have a BIG in South Africa? — Pilots, multipliers and Covid- recovery stimulus - let the evidence lead Guy...

Increased Unemployment in SA Due to Covid-19 Pandemic

Isobel Frye considers the effects of the increases in poverty from Covid as part of these insights of SABC on 11 August 2020. Source: SABC...

Media Statement: People United in National Day of Working Class Action

On Saturday, 1st August 2020 #PayTheGrants campaign participated in the working class Day of Action in South Africa to protest the state’s dismal response...

What is the Big Idea? Managing the Expectations of the Basic Income Grant

Sacha Knox, Senior Researcher & Budget Analyst at The Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute on SAfm talking basic income grant and matters incidental...

Think Big – Basic Income Grant Needs to Be About More Than Just Food, Say Researchers

The idea of a basic income grant is a response to the failure of government to create jobs, says an expert. Social Development Minister...