Price increases over the past year mean a basket of essential food items for a person receiving the R350 Social Relief of Distress grant is unaffordable.
The Institute for Economic Justice and the Applied Development Research Solutions recently found that the introduction of a wealth tax and social welfare tax could help fund the basic income grant.
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