Economics

Virus Puts Income Grant Back on South Africa Ruling Party Agenda

  • Discussion paper proposes $29 monthly stipend for all adults
  • Deepening poverty, inequality may stoke violence: document
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South Africa’s ruling African National Congress is reconsidering a previously discarded proposal to pay all citizens an income grant, according to a party discussion paper.