Namibia: Big Proponents Want Action Not 'Lip Service'

28 October 2020

Proponents of the Basic Income Grant (BIG) say government has been paying lip service to the idea of implementing the initiative.

"Government saying that it will implement BIG in Namibia has been nothing but lip service. We can only get excited once the government adopts the social protection policy, gazette it and set a date for implementation," Rinaani Musutua of the Economic and Social Justice Trust told New Era yesterday. She said government has, for the past 15 years, promised to implement BIG but never did. "In June 2019, Bishop Kameeta (former poverty eradication minister) attended the biannual German Evangelical Church Assembly (Kirchentag) in Duisburg under the title:

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