Silence is proving to be anything but golden for organisations battling to secure meetings with state departments over Social Relief of Distress Grant.
Since it was published, the 2021 Budget has been called out as unconstitutional and austere from many corners. More than 200 social movements, civil society organisations, trade unions and individuals, in an open letter to members of Parliament, have endorsed a call for MPs to reject the Budget and send it back to the drawing board. The current Budget will cut public spending by R265-billion over the next three years in areas which directly affect human rights.
The signatories of the open letter represent 1.5 million people, according to Section27, one of the signatories.
The letter urges the members of Parliament to use their constitutional powers to send the Budget back to the executive. They should demand that it protects human rights and finds an alternative way of managing public debt, the letter states.
23 February 2021, 1:00 PM | SABC | @iLuvuyo
Image: @OfficialSASSAContinuing to refuse Social Relief of Distress to caregivers will lead to a clear harm to women, writes Isobel Frye.
For decades since the defeat of the German Nazi government in the Second World War, Germany embraced the process of ‘vergangenheitsbewaltigung’ to advance recognition of the obligations of the nation to the victims of the Nazi Third Reich.
On 8 May 1985, former Federal President of West German, Richard von Weizsacker, said at the Bundestag: “
In our country, a new generation has grown up to assume political responsibility. Our young people are not responsible for what happened over 40 years ago. But they are responsible for the historical consequences.”