You and Your SASSA Grant
How to apply for your SASSA grant? You and Your Special COVID-19 SRD Grant – Application Process Click Your and your grant booklet to view the full steps to Apply for your SASSA Grant!
Newzroom Afrika: Leading NPO’s say Womens’ Month can’t be celebrated when most are still suffering
Leading NPO’s say Womens’ Month can’t be celebrated when most are still suffering “Apartheid victimised women because of the colour of their skin” – Director of Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute, Isobel Frye on the Womens’ month interview with Newzroom Afrika. Women are being victimised for various reasons, most of these reasons are […]
ABC National Radio: Violence and inequality—how the end of apartheid failed black South Africa
Violence and inequality—how the end of apartheid failed black South Africa In the early 1990s, Nelson Mandela and his political party, the ANC, ended apartheid peacefully but the leaders of the new democracy did not address the economic inequality of the apartheid era. Today it is tearing the nation apart. Isobel Frye, director of the […]
Mechanisms, funding and state capability for poverty and inequality reduction (post-Covid) in South Africa | Friday 6 August 11h00
Mechanisms, funding and state capability for poverty and inequality reduction (post-Covid) in South Africa Friday 6 August 11h00 Please be advised that the recording of the webinar on “Mechanisms, funding and state capability for poverty and inequality reduction (post-Covid) in South Africa” held last Friday 6 August at 11h00 can be accessed here. Feel free […]
Op-Ed: I lost my father, then my job, as Covid-19 fuelled youth unemployment
Op-Ed: I lost my father, then my job, as Covid-19 fuelled youth unemployment I caught Covid-19 in December 2020. And I was incapacitated beyond function, my chest was tight and it was difficult to sleep. I felt too weak to even bath myself. I spent a great amount of time in bed. After I sent […]
Press Release: No Cause For Celebration this Women’s Month – Advocacy Groups Outraged
No Cause For Celebration this Women’s Month – Advocacy Groups Outraged Press Release For Immediate Release 06 August 2021 No Cause For Celebration this Women’s Month – Advocacy Groups Outraged South Africa – We cannot celebrate this Women’s Month when South African women are suffering. The spiralling status of women in the […]
Article: Basic Income Grant funding, explained
Basic Income Grant funding, explained – The Daily Vox Team There has been a renewed call for the introduction of a basic income grant. The Universal Basic Income Grant (UBIG) has long been spoken about by government and civil society. But the pandemic and recent unrest have intensified the calls. But the question many have […]
SAfm: The SRD grant, does that solve our poverty, inequality?
The reintroduction to the social relief of distress grant. Does that solve our poverty, inequality issues in SA? Isobel Frye, Director of the Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute dissects the newly implemented Social Relief of Distress grant and what it is capable of doing for the nation’s poverty, inequality and unemployment margins. The […]
Statement of the NEDLAC Community Constituency on the reintroduction of the R350 SRoD Grant
Statement of the NEDLAC Community Constituency on the reintroduction of the R350 SRoD Grant The Community Constituency welcomes the contents of the media briefing of the Minister of Social Development today, 4 August 2021. In the briefing, the Minister indicated that applications for the R350 Social Relief of Distress (SRoD) Grant would be open from […]
Article: Post-Apartheid Inequality Sparks Frustration and Fury
Decent Standard of Living and Basic Income Grants aid those in need “A decent Standard of Living is possible and doable,” Isobel Frye, Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute. An article from Bloomberg, Businessweek: The trip from Pretoria to Mabopane starts on a six-lane highway lined with malls and office parks, passes verdant gated […]
