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Social Security is Everyone's Right!
28 Jul 2003

BIEN CONGRESS NEWSFLASH: The BIG Coalition has asked the Economic Policy Research Institute (EPRI) to host the 2006 BIEN Congress, which will take place in Cape Town 2-4 November 2006. For more information, please contact the organisers.

South Africa's Constitution says: "Everyone has the right to have access to ... social security, including, if they are unable to support themselves and their dependents, appropriate social assistance."

Yet roughly half of South Africa's people live in poverty. And nearly half of all poor people live in households that have no access to social security.

The Basic Income Grant Coalition was formed in mid-2001 to develop a common platform among advocates of a universal income support grant and to mobilise popular support for the introduction of the grant.

The Basic Income Grant Coalition calls for the introduction of a Basic Income Grant which would

  • provide everyone with a minimum level of income,
  • enable the nation's poorest households to better meet their basic needs,
  • stimulate equitable economic development,
  • promote family and community stability, and
  • affirm and support the inherent dignity of all.

Read the BIG Coalition's platform

Read the FAQs about the BIG in English, Afrikaans or isiXhosa

Please contact us if your organisation endorses the platform and wants to join the BIG Coalition

Last update: 4 April 2006


 
:: Newsflash !
DID YOU KNOW that Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was an early proponent of the Basic Income Grant?

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