Work is under way to develop a mechanism for a targeted basic income grant to support the vulnerable within budget constraints, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in his state of the nation address.  

Civil society has been clamouring for the introduction of a basic income grant for several years and National Treasury has been investigating various options for this...

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