TUESDAY EDITORIAL: Inhumane and unconstitutional economic policy ‘takes food from the mouths of children’

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In several villages in the Eastern Cape there are reports of children running a food stokvel, a practice they have termed ‘Umgalelo’, to make sure that at least twice a week their school feeding scheme fills their little stomachs. Their hunger, and the ...

Hall and Proudlock argue: “Below-inflation increases will mean that the real value of grants is eroded: poor people will be poorer and there will be less food on the table. This is a disaster for the 13 million children and the seven million caregivers who depend on grants to provide for them. It is an unthinkable trade-off: the budget literally takes food from the mouths of children.”

“given the cost of extending [the SRD], increases to other social grants in 2023/24 will be slightly below inflation and other social welfare priorities may remain unaddressed.”But it’s more than just mean and inhumane – it’s unconstitutional. With this budget, and the spending priorities it omits or undervalues, South Africa is in effect defaulting on our Constitution, a Constitution that is meant to ensure:Be the “supreme law” that in itssays to future governments “that law or conduct inconsistent with it is invalid, and the obligations imposed by it must be fulfilled”.

 

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Yet the 'royals' of this country get paid millions for salaries for doing nothing!! This is ridiculous we need to end royal salaries and our taxes going to them yet we cannot alleviate poverty and unemployment.. sies ANCmustgo

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Where's the fat cat budget from the dinners at Parliament and MPs entertainment allowance?! This is criminal. Premeditated murder of our children. Where are the noisy activists? Those BlackSash women, the 44+ yr old youth? ANC EFF classactionsuitSAvsANC

This is a human rights abuse issue- why isn’t SAHRC been involved why NOT what exactly is their mandate what and why are they earning their well paid salaries for ☺️

It makes you want to cry. That we still have supposedly “responsible adults” with all their “agency” that still vote for this lying, thieving, immoral, incompetent anc scum…

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