Many grant recipients are young, unemployed, and not necessarily loyal to the governing ANC like older generations.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened unemployment and poverty, showing the need for the government to permanently expand income support to working-age adults.
A third of South African children live below the food poverty line. The fact that many caregivers can’t work because of the lockdown will worsen food insecurity. Here’s what needs to be done.
South Africa’s social grants, which benefit a third of the country’s population, are widely celebrated. But these grants fall far short of addressing the country’s malnutrition challenge.
The unfolding social grant payment crisis in South Africa threatens the livelihoods of a third of the country’s population.
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Visiting Professor at the Business School, University of the Witwatersrand
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