CIVIL SOCIETY SUBMISSION RELATING TO COMBATING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
2019 Budget not serious about addressing Gender Based Violence This submission focuses on analysing the budget in relation to combating Genderbased Violence (GBV) and femicide. Unfortunately, despite President Cyril Ramaphosa’s pronouncements in the State of the Nation Address (SONA) just two weeks ago, there is no evidence in the budget delivered by Minister Tito Mboweni […]
Distress Or Destitution – Why South Africa’s Social Grants Ignore The Masses Of Unemployed
It is remarkable that South Africa’s social security laws are still based on the pre-1994 Social Assistance Act, with tweaks. These laws were aimed at the well-being of white South Africans in the context of virtual full employment for white men. They do not accommodate the lifelong income poverty of millions marginalised from decent work. […]
The Budget Justice Coalition Reaffirms The Need For A Rights-Orientated Budget
The Budget Justice Coalition notes the irony of a budget handed down on World Day of Social Justice that slashes R50.3 billion from social expenditure over the next three years. While we recognise the tight financial spot the Treasury has been painted into by widespread corruption, under-delivering departments and failing SOEs, especially Eskom – we […]
Launch of a Decent Standard of Living for South Africa
A Decent Standard of Living will be released for the first time in South Africa on Tuesday 20 November. This standard is set at R7 043 per person per month – a standard that less than 4% of South Africans currently enjoy. South Africa is a text book example for post – liberation economic inequalities. The […]
Examining the Oxfam Report Into Inequality – Podcast
South Africa is the most unequal country in the world, according to a World Bank 2018 study of 149 countries. Inequality is rising globally as the 2018 World Inequality Report sets out, but there are historic and current drivers of inequality in South Africa that must be understood to be arrested and turned around. Listen […]
SPII Talk Newsletter 3rd Quarter August – November 2018
The cost of the corruption has often been estimated in numerical terms. But surely there is another toll that the nefarious project has taken: the damage done to organs whose entire functioning was usurped, captured and deliberately allowed to fall into disrepair. And perhaps a biological characterisation such as this is the most effective to […]
THE PEOPLE’S ADJUSTED BUDGET 2018-2019
What is the Adjusted Budget? Six months after the beginning of the financial year, an Adjusted Budget is tabled which shows how government is planning to change its spending plans to deal with any unexpected circumstances. Unused funds, including the money from its rainy day fund and money which departments do not think that they […]
Social Security Seminar Johannesburg 22th November 2018
An Introduction to the Decent Standard of Living threshold and the Decent Standard of Living Index. This is a PowerPoint presentation of the Social Security Seminar Johannesburg 22th November 2018.
Decent Standard of Living Index Final Report
This report presents a Decent Standard of Living (DSL) and DSL Index for South Africa. The approach is based on a concept of relative poverty that focuses on the ability of people to achieve a socially determined acceptable standard of living to enable them to fully participate in society.
Towards A Decent Life For All
There is a crucial link that exists between the right to a decent standard of life and the right to dignity. The right to dignity is an inalienable right guaranteed in section 10 of the South African constitution.
