At their annual meeting, the Southern African Quaker Community voted in support of the introduction of a universal basic income for all people legally in South Africa. Here they explain the reasons behind the resolution.
These are the views of a broad range of civil society organisations and experts on what President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address means for different sectors, including youth unemployment, social grants, early childhood development, health and anti-corruption efforts.
Duma Gqubule was addressing a webinar on the universal Basic Income Grant hosted by The Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute. The economist added that said there was a self-financing element to the basic income grant and more than half of the cost will return to government.
What is the value of human life in 2022, as the government quibbles over a few hundred rands per poor person while the state haemorrhages millions from failing electricity supplier Eskom, corruption in the public healthcare system or unnecessary things like motivating for a giant glow-in-the-da.
Ever since the eruption of widespread xenophobic violence in 2008, the widely deployed claim that “foreign nationals are taking our jobs” is now accepted as fact by many. But statistics and research prove the opposite.