Basic Income Activism in South Africa, 1997–2019

Jeremy Seekings ()
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Jeremy Seekings: University of Cape Town

Chapter Chapter 13 in Political Activism and Basic Income Guarantee, 2020, pp 253-272 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract 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.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-43904-0_13

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