Interview with Taku Fundira, advocate of SADC BIG campaign, South Africa
Manja Taylor, from the 8th International Basic Income Week, interviews Taku Fundira, advocate of SADC BIG campaign, South Africa. The interview can be read here.
Leila Gharagozloo-Pakkala, “Social protection may be the key to uplifting Africa’s poor”
Alleviating poverty
The author discusses the success of unconditional cash transfer programs in reducing poverty and providing a number of benefits. Cash transfer programs are a form of basic income limited to those with low income.
Leila Gharagozloo-Pakkala, “Social protection may be the key to uplifting Africa’s poor”, Mail & Guardian, 2014 November 17
Emilia Motsai, “Basic Income Grant is Necessary”
[Josh Martin]
A South African human rights organization named Black Sash have welcomed the social grants already in place, but want the government to “seriously” consider basic income grants as well.
Emilia Motsai, “Basic Income Grant is Necessary”, The Citizen, 3 April 2014
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Andrew Donaldson, “Cape Town: The terrorists win again”
Andrew Donaldson, “Cape Town: The terrorists win again,” Politics Web, 1 December 2013.
Politics Web
Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute, “Report on SADC-wide Basic Income Grant: Alternatives to financing SADC-wide Basic Income Grant”
This document reports on a conference that was hosted by Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute (SPII) and the Ecumenical Service on Southern Africa (KASA) in Johannesburg, South Africa. It was held on 25 and 26 April 2013 at the Economic Rights Programme. The conference was aimed to develop an innovative and comprehensive case for the introduction of a universal cash transfer in the form of a Basic Income Grant for the entire Southern African Development Community (SADC). The grant will be funded by a tax on extractive activities, such as mining and drilling.
Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute, “Report on SADC-wide Basic Income Grant: Alternatives to financing SADC-wide Basic Income Grant,” KASA, June 11, 2013.
