On Tuesday 18 January 2022 our civil society collective met with President Cyril Ramaphosa, Minister Lindiwe Zulu and Minister Enoch Godongwana. The meeting was about the urgent need for permanent

President Cyril Ramaphosa, supported by Minister of Social Development Lindiwe Zulu and Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana, met with a Civil Society Organisation (CSO) collective on Tuesday, 18 January 2022.

Civil society organisations campaigning for basic income are becoming increasingly alarmed by the fact that National Treasury seems determined to unilaterally, and secretively, push through a woefully misguided and unfeasible

The Black Sash Trust and the Centre for Applied Legal Studies welcome the decision by the Director of Public Prosecutions in Gauteng to prosecute former Minister Bathabile Dlamini for perjury

The Black Sash welcomes the decision announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa on 25 July 2021 that the Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) Grant will be reinstated until March 2022.

“I last worked in 2017 as a domestic worker. When my contract ended, I did not qualify for UIF benefits since my employer failed to register me. I used to