Rédaction Africa Links 24 with RFI Africa
Published on 2024-05-27 06:04:16
Johannesburg, South Africa – With a third of the population unemployed, poverty has dramatically increased in South Africa in the past five years, and millions depend on grants. As South Africans head to the polls on 29 May, both the ruling party and its challengers are promising to introduce a universal basic income – something activists have long called for, but are sceptical a new government can deliver.
For Elisabeth Raiters, an unemployed black woman living on the outskirts of Soweto, life is a daily struggle.
Her latest adversary is the public body responsible for distributing monthly cash grants first introduced as a Covid…
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