The Child Support Grant is such an important intervention. It is well targeted and well used. If increased it has major potential for universal improvements in equity, economic growth, and employment.
With this project we considered the three biggest and one newly formed small political parties’ manifestos and hope to provide information to the public on the extent to which parties respond to an intersectional feminist agenda
Whilst we welcome what appears to be a greater commitment by Government to the provision of relief to households, workers, and small businesses, it still feels to us that we are trying to pull blood out of a stone.
The May 2021 Household Affordability Index, which tracks food price data from 44 supermarkets and 30 butcheries, shows that the average cost of the Household Food Basket is R4137,11.
