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DSL Project – 2023: Surveying possession of socially perceived necessities
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October 4, 2022
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According to a recent colloquium on disrupting poverty, a decent standard of life is not only about earning the national minimum wage but also rests on service delivery and social networks.
In South Africa, each person has a constitutional right to live a life of dignity, a right to access to food and shelter, and basic services such as water, electricity and proper sanitation.
South African citizens need to be earning R7 911 per month or more in order to achieve a decent standard of living.
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Johannesburg – South Africans will need to have a monthly income of approximately R7 911 to have a decent standard of living.
For the full list of 34 socially perceived necessities, please check out the Studies in Poverty and Inequality website.
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Studies in poverty and Inequality Institute’s Nkuleleko Majozi speaks to Thami Ngubeni from Newzroom Afrika on the updated national poverty lines for 2021 which was
Most people who care about measuring poverty—policymakers, academics, non-profit organisations, and the like—agree that the way the government currently determines poverty levels and social security
The process must be questioned, Frye encourages the Department to reintroduce the Green Paper, with the understanding that it will lead to a White Paper, and then to drafting the Bill, then finally be introduced to Parliament.
Isobel Frye continues to elaborate on the backlash received from the withdrawal of the Green Paper that makes mention of provisions for those living below the poverty line, “The way that the Minister is being projected has been really unfair,” Frye reiterates.
All employers and employees will be obliged to pay into a government-run national social security fund, according to proposals in a green paper
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A BIG is big because it has to be. Small is not big enough to reconstruct the links between stomach and table and heart and future hope.
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“A decent Standard of Living is possible and doable,” Isobel Frye, Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute. An article from Bloomberg, Businessweek: The trip
Reproductive health has also been mentioned, the right to dignity should be a norm. Poverty-stricken young women need to be supported, they compromise their own sexual health to sustain themselves and their families.
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