The policy brief calls for setting of a protection floor through a Universal Basic Income which will protect and ensure vulnerable South Africans do not fall any deeper into poverty and minimize the current inequality gap.

This brief highlights the importance of social protection in climate action.

Social Security Spring Symposium 21 November 2022.

The Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute (SPII) was registered in 2006 due to a growing concern about poverty and inequality in South Africa. SPI’s core mission was to understand the nature and causes of poverty and inequality and to contribute to policy solutions. In 2006 South Africa did not have any measurement of poverty like the national poverty lines we have now, which were introduced in part as a response to SPII’s early work. SPII’s first project focused on understanding poverty through a level of knowledge that is deeper than money-metric poverty lines. This led to the development of the highly successful Decent Standard of Living (DSL) project in which SPII collaborated with various partners, including organised labour, civil society, academia, Social Development, StatsSA, National Treasury, and the Presidency.

The Settlement and Implementation Support (SIS) Strategy was a post-settlement strategy for land reform in South Africa. The SIS Strategy was designed to achieve equitable land ownership among South African citizens and to support the Land Reform Programme, which was initiated in 1994.

The concept of a Basic Income Grant (BIG) in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, particularly in South Africa, aims to provide a regular, unconditional cash transfer to all citizens, regardless of employment status, to ensure a basic standard of living

Document focused on historical background of Natives Land Act of 1913 and effects of apartheid on rural development and providing a framework for the rural development programme.