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Violence sparks new calls for basic income grant

Reeling: Volunteers and workers clean up the looted Bara Mall in Soweto. The destruction and theft in the country is a more than R50-million blow to the already struggling economy. (Lucas Sola/AFP)
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After almost a week of violence that knocked business — and as the country reels from a long-standing unemployment crisis worsened by the Covid-19 pandemic — the cabinet is mulling a basic income grant. 

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Sarah Smit
Sarah Smit
Sarah Smit is a general news reporter at the Mail & Guardian. She covers topics relating to labour, corruption and the law.

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