IN THE BALANCE. THE CASE FOR A UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME IN SOUTH AFRICA AND BEYOND

Abstract

Hein Marais (2022). In the balance. The case for a universal basic income in South Africa
and beyond. ISBN 978-1-77614-772-4. Pages 299. Social work practitioners are at the coalface of casework documenting individuals, households and communities whose livelihoods and security have been ravaged by South Africa’s worsening poverty, unemployment and inequality trends, and they know well that state social security assistance brings considerable amelioration. Socioeconomic rights to social security indicated in Section 27 (1) (c) of the Constitution stir debates about the architecture of social security and appropriate social assistance, as well as the legislation directing the use of resources towards progressively realising those rights.