Basic Income can help people take control of their own lives. – The RSA
AIDC Analytical Paper: The Budget, Social Security and the Basic Income Grant Alternative Synopsis – Isobel Frye
The introduction of a universal cash transfer, a Basic Income Grant, has been hotly contested as a policy option to address vulnerability and social and
economic and political exclusion of working age people and their households in South Africa for over ten years. In this paper we begin with a review of current spending on social assistance in South Africa.
Can we afford NOT to have a BIG in South Africa? – Podcast
In this episode, Guy Standing, internationally renown expert and widely published author on BIG speaks to Duma and Isobel about his experience as advisor to President Mandela on labour market issues, as well as his view that South Africa CANNOT afford not to have a Universal Basic Income Grant.
Joint Stakeholder Submission on the Right to Adequate Standard of Living in South Africa
Joint Stakeholder Submission to the Working Group of the Universal Periodic Review on the Right to Adequate Standard of Living in South Africa (March 2022)
SPII’s Contribution – Submission to UN CESCR
SPII’s Contribution – Submission to UN CESCR on South Africa’s implementation of UN CESCR recommendations – composite index on the cost of living.
Political Elites Must Break Ranks to Crush Poverty, Inequality
Are there steps that we can take to correct these inequalities and stabilise our democratic project? Yes, if we want to
Podcast: High Price to Pay for the Rising Cost of Living
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa says he has established a committee of ministers to assess the impact that the conflict in Ukraine will have on food and fuel prices. To assist us on this we are joined by Amanda Fitchen, an independent economist, Thembinkosi Dlamini Senior Extractives Lead Oxfam South, Isobel Frye, Director at the Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute.
More People Believe They Are Living Under Poverty in South Africa
Executive Director, Isobel Frye, speaks on Subjective Poverty in South Africa on SABC News; “We know that the burden of poverty in South Africa falls unfairly on the shoulders of women.”
Nkululeko Majozi Speaking on Subjective Poverty in South Africa
Poverty in South Africa is directly linked to income inequality. Any measure that can fix the current situation needs to be linked to Income Security!
Podcast: In The Ring With Eusebius McKaiser – Can we afford a Basic Income Grant?
Isobel Frye Thinks We Can and Must Spend More on Social Security I invited Isobel Frye (Director, Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute) to weigh in on what is becoming an internecine policy debate about unemployment, low growth and the size of our welfare state. Can we afford a Basic Income Grant? What would be […]
