The South African Social Security Agency has created a crisis that threatens to deliver social grant recipients on a silver platter into the hands of unscrupulous financial services companies.
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Social welfare budgets have simply not been adequate to plug decades’ worth of under-resourcing, especially in black communities. It’s a good place for government to start giving life to its slogans
The unfolding social grant payment crisis in South Africa threatens the livelihoods of a third of the country’s population.
A change of attitude which comes with some deep introspection by South African business leaders can help address some of the country’s key socioeconomic challenges.
The lack of service integration and the paucity of welfare services make poor people’s task of caring for their familes much harder. A small monthly cash transfer can’t solve all their challenges.
What seems to be a simple question of banks’ responsibilities is actually a major issue playing out where social security, banking, property, criminal and constitutional law intersect.
Progress in South Africa’s welfare system is being hindered by corruption, labour disputes and a lack of research and innovation in the field.
South Africa’s government should urgently announce a moratorium on civil service employment growth. The country has reached its upper limit in the number of civil servants that can be sustained.
Could the surge of worker and popular resistance worldwide provide the global trade union movement with an opportunity to take the lead in developing a broad coalition of social forces?
One in five workers in South Africa is poor. The plight of the working poor has wide implications. Employers have a responsibility to ensure a minimum level of decent wages.
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Associate professor, University of Johannesburg
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Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
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Professor of Political 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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Visiting Professor at the Business School, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor in Economics and Public Policy, University of Oxford
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Senior research fellow at the Centre for Social Development in Africa, University of Johannesburg
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Research assistant at The Mind and Behaviour Research Group, University of Oxford
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PhD candidate in Economics, UMass Amherst
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Senior Researcher Rural Health in Transition and Agincourt Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Researcher in Economics, University of Surrey
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Distinguished Research Fellow, Human Sciences Research Council
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Resesarcher, SALDRU, University of Cape Town
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Emeritus professor in Politics, University of Johannesburg