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Basic Income Activism in South Africa, 1997–2019

In: Political Activism and Basic Income Guarantee

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  • Jeremy Seekings

    (University of Cape Town)

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Basic income activists have kept the idea of basic income on the edge of the policy-making agenda in South Africa for more than twenty years, but proposals have not gained significant support within the policy-making and political elite. Nor has the idea served to mobilise popular support. Crucially, both public and elite opinion remains opposed to the extension of social grants to working-age adults. Activists have framed the issue in terms of poverty-reduction, social and economic rights and development, but none of these frames has succeeded in overcoming conservative resistance. Basic income activism in South Africa has remained a largely intellectual project sustained by a small network of individuals without strong organisational or popular bases.

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  • Jeremy Seekings, 2020. "Basic Income Activism in South Africa, 1997–2019," Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee, in: Richard K. Caputo & Larry Liu (ed.), Political Activism and Basic Income Guarantee, chapter 0, pages 253-272, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:etbchp:978-3-030-43904-0_13
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-43904-0_13
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    1. Charles Adams & Derek Yu, 2022. "Labour market trends in South Africa in 2009-2019: A lost decade?," Working Papers 03/2022, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics.

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