The SRD grant was introduced in May 2020 to support people without income during the Covid-19 lockdowns.
Challenging exclusion: the fight for fair SRD grants
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National Treasury
Education cuts are provincial choice within national programme
There are many ways in which the Provincial Treasury can reprioritise spending to secure teaching jobs.
Unemployment is killing SA
Amandla! Issue #94 is out! ✊🏾
The private sector continues to stifle democracy
Energy sector trade unions have expressed profound worries about what the Just Energy Transition Partnership will mean for workers.
For a Basic Income Grant and against austerity
The calls for a Universal Basic Income Guarantee (UBIG) by academics, trade unions, and popular movements, such as the Universal Basic Income Coalition (UBIC) are mounting. There is growing local and international evidence that cash transfers can address some of the...
The fundamental flaws of the new Integrated Resource Plan
How will South Africa overcome load-shedding and achieve a just transition to a low-carbon economy? The Integrated Resource Plan, produced by the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy, is a blueprint which outlines the South African government’s plans for the...
The fake “7.5%” public servants wage increase and the game of smoke and mirrors
AS THE AUSTERITY trajectory of the Treasury continues downward, tricks and deception have become the order of the day. All to deceive public sector workers about the real amount of their pay “increase”. Nehawu, Popcru, Denosa, Sapu and others went on strike for one...
WATER FOR PROFIT NOT USE: THE CASE OF NELSON MANDELA BAY
WATER IN SOUTH AFRICA IS A story of failing infrastructure and dry taps. Only one-third of South Africa’s water infrastructure is operational. The government’s inability to maintain existing infrastructure, as a result of austerity policies and political malfeasance,...
SOUTH AFRICA’S FOOD CRISIS
SOUTH AFRICANS ARE CONTENDING with a rapidly unfolding food crisis, marked by rising transport and food prices. As they do so, high levels of unemployment, unchecked inequality and deepening poverty continue under the watch of the South African State, threatening the...