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Engage Submission to The Portfolio Committee on Social Development (National Assembly) on the Social Assist
Engage Submission to The Portfolio Committee on Social Development (National Assembly) on the Social Assist | Submission to The Portfolio Committee on Social Development (National Assembly) on the Social Assist |
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Any discussion of social assistance must be seen in the particular context of South Africa. Of about 48 million people living in South Africa, levels of poverty are estimated to range between 50% to over 80% according to the Labour Force Survey in July 2009 (before the full impact of the financial crisis), whilst over 13million working age people were employed, over 4 million were counted as unemployed, and yet another 12 million people of working age were not in employment for a variety of reasons, including that they had given up looking for work. There is no national poverty line so statistics on poverty depend on where the poverty line is drawn. A paper commissioned from the DPRU by the Department of Social Development in 2008 calculated an upper bound poverty line of R1 187 per person per month which would measure about 82% of South Africans as being poor. This submission was prepared by SPII (www.spii.org.za) and has been endorsed by the National Welfare Forum. Read more... Bookmark this article:          |
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