Basic Income Grant

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Basic income grant policy will take another year at least

Revised policy will be sent to Cabinet in March 2027

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News | 5 February 2026

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Cabinet sent basic income grant plan back to the drawing board

Meanwhile the Department of Social Development will ask for another extension of the Social Relief of Distress grant, MPs told

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News | 5 June 2025

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R2,000 unconditional grant improves lives, KZN study finds

The Unconditional Cash Transfer Project gives monthly cash transfers to 100 unemployed graduates

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News | 30 September 2024

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Churches join call for basic income grant

Providing a guaranteed minimum level of income frees people from vicious cycle of poverty, says Archbishop Thabo Makgoba

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News | 26 July 2024

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Can South Africa afford a Basic Income Grant? Or can we afford not to?

GroundUp and Black Sash hosted a debate on the feasibility of the Basic Income Grant (BIG) on Thursday

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News | 26 April 2024

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Black Sash petitions social development minister to oversee SASSA

The civil society organisation lists numerous issues with social grant payments it says need to be addressed urgently

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Brief | 14 June 2023

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“R350 is an insult. It is even less than the lunch of a minister’s son a day”

Activist groups demand Basic Income Grant of R1,500 at Kariega protest

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Brief | 23 February 2023

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Basic Income Grant: South Africa CAN afford to pay it

We can do it without cutting back on other grants

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Debate | 4 October 2022

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Universal social security is now a matter of urgency

Government must implement a policy for either a basic income grant or a grant for unemployed people

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Opinion | 3 December 2021