RFI
Parties woo South Africa’s poorest voters with promise of basic income
With a third of the population unemployed, poverty has dramatically increased in South Africa in the past five years, and millions depend on grants. As South Africans head to the polls on 29 May, both the ruling party and its challengers are promising to introduce a universal basic income – something activists have long called for, but are sceptical a new government can deliver. For Elisabeth Raiters, an unemployed black woman living on the outskirts of Soweto, life is a daily struggle.Her lates
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