Godongwana kicks Basic Income Support down the road … Again

The future of South Africa’s long-anticipate Basic Income Support grant was left unresolved this week. This is despite previous indication that the finer details would be addressed in the next ‘mini-budget.’ Instead, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) simply extended ‘temporary’ R370 SRD for another year. However, is the minster kicking the Basic Income Support can down the road yet again only intensifying South Africa’s youth unemployment crisis? Latest Quarterly Labour Force figures (Q2 2026) show unemployment among young South Afric

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