Government by grants: The post-pandemic politics of welfare

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dc.contributor.authorDubbeld, Bernard
dc.contributor.authorPinto de Almeida, Fernanda
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-29T08:59:18Z
dc.date.available2023-06-29T08:59:18Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractIn April 2020, with South Africa in national lockdown, president Cyril Ramaphosa announced the Covid-19 relief program on a scale he called �historic�. He affirmed that the state would not only reestablish the economy but forge a new economy and ultimately a new society in what he called a �new global reality�. Already at the end of March, his government had announced a special Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress Grant of R350 a month to be paid to currently unemployed individuals who did not receive any other form of social grant or unemployment benefit. Existing Child Support Grant beneficiaries also received an additional sum. With Statistics South Africa announcing in September the unprecedented loss of 2.2 million jobs in the second quarter of the year, in October the government extended the special unemployment grant for another three months.en_US
dc.identifier.citationDubbeld, B., & Pinto de Almeida, F. (2020). Government by grants: The post-pandemic politics of welfare. Transformation Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa, 104, 55-66. 10.1353/trn.2020.0032.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1726-1368
dc.identifier.uri10.1353/trn.2020.0032.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/9174
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJohns Hopkins University Pressen_US
dc.subjectPoliticsen_US
dc.subjectCovid-19en_US
dc.subjectPublic healthen_US
dc.subjectSocial developmenten_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.titleGovernment by grants: The post-pandemic politics of welfareen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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