Draft National Anti-Poverty Strategy

The  draft  National  Anti-Poverty  Strategy  was  launched  for  consultation  on  29  October  at  the  Union  Buildings  by  the  Deputy  President.

SPII  participated  in  a  panel  discussion  at  the  launch.    The  Director  welcomed  the  launch  and  the  acknowledgement  of  the  need  for  public  consultation.

She  recommended  that  the  strategy  needed  to  look  more  closely  at  Inequality  within  the  country.    Social  cohesion  will  always  be  threatened  in  the  face  of  such  huge  inequalities  as  we  have  in  South  Africa.

In  addition  to  this,  she  suggested  that  one  way  of  addressing  the  huge  income  disparities  would  be  to  introduce  comprehensive  income  support,  which  could  also  be  funded  by  a  super-tax  for  the  wealthy.    Trickle  down  shared  growth  is  not  going  to  be  able  to  address  the  inequalities  at  the  rate  that  we  require.

The  Director  also  recommended  the  establishment  of  a  Standing  Poverty  Commission,  a  multi-stakeholder  forum  which  could  be  co-chaired  by  NEDLAC  and  the  DBSA,  with  a  well  resourced  secretariat  to  oversee  and  monitor  the  progress  in  anti-poverty  strategies  across  all  sectors,  promote  debate  and  discussion  and  build  up  effective  measures  of  poverty,  inequality  and  wealth.

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