Overcoming poverty is an act of justice: Ramaphosa

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[PRESIDENT'S DESK] When debt servicing costs are excluded, around 60% of government’s budget is spent on the social wage. That is money spent on alleviating poverty and meeting people’s developmental needs. Moneyweb Poverty

This month, we celebrate the life and work of Nelson Mandela by recommitting ourselves to build the society to which he dedicated his life. In everything we do this month to honour the founding father of our nation, let us recall his observation that, “while poverty persists, there is no true freedom”. The achievement of democracy in 1994 was not an end in itself.

Basic education is provided to over 13 million learners, many of whom attend no-fee schools. Health care is provided for the 50 million South Africans that don’t have private health insurance. Then there are the millions of families whose lives have been changed through the provision of subsidised housing. Social protection includes public and social employment programmes, which provide unemployed people with income, work experience and training opportunities.

 

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