South Africa: Democratic Alliance Repeats Call for Basic Income Grant

Johannesburg — The Democratic Alliance said on Sunday the deaths of 166 children from starvation in the Eastern Cape in the first half of 2002 clearly indicated the necessity for a basic income grant.

"There is a huge social security gap between the maximum age at which one could claim a child support grant and the minimum age at which one qualifies for an old-age pension. And it is this gap that could be closed by the implementation of a basic income grant (BIG) of R110 per month," the DA's Nick Clelland-Stokes said in a statement.

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