Ramaphosa’s celebration of growing social grant dependency raises concerns
Ramaphosa’s celebration and bragging of the rapid rise in South Africans’ dependency on social grants to make a living sparks grave concern.
Ramaphosa’s celebration and bragging of the rapid rise in South Africans’ dependency on social grants to make a living sparks grave concern.
The official jobless rate decreased to 32.9% in the three months through September from 33.9% in the previous quarter.
South Africa is well and truly a welfare nation in which at least 47% of the population rely on social grants of one kind or another.
Disabled people were blasted with water cannons after they failed to practice social distancing in growing queues outside a SASSA office.
Lindiwe Zulu is seeking to smuggle in a permanent ‘social relief of distress’ grant by means of regulations on which she has allowed a scant three weeks for public comment.
SARB governor Lesetja Kganyago has repeatedly asserted that South Africa’s economic problems are structural and cannot be addressed by monetary policy.
There is much good being done by South Africans – often in spite of official directives rather than because of them. Take the example of Anthony Krijger.
There’s a belief that a basic income grant of some variety can significantly reduce poverty in SA. True – but it isn’t quite as simple as all that.
“The number of SA’s who receive social grants has increased prodigiously over the last 20 years, and this is one of the greatest risks to the country.”
Government’s National Democratic Revolution is running out of money to squeeze from SA citizens. it’s time to act against citizen abuse writes Anthea Jeffery.