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The link between household food insecurity and child malnutrition is stark: 28.8% of South African children under five suffer from stunting.
Many grant recipients are young, unemployed, and not necessarily loyal to the governing ANC like older generations.
As much as 31% of grant beneficiaries engage in informal work to ‘grow’ their income.
There’s a case to be made for combining cash grants and job-search assistance services.
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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UCT Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Scholar; Director of ARUA's African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research within SALDRU., University of Cape Town
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Director DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security, University of the Western Cape
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