South Africa is full of myths about Universal Basic Income, that it makes people lazy, that it’s unaffordable, or that it’s no different from existing grants. The truth is very different. UBI is not charity, it’s justice. It’s a system…
Universal Basic Income is no longer a fringe idea. It’s a serious, necessary response to South Africa’s deep inequality, unemployment, and broken safety nets. It’s also a simple truth: everyone deserves the basics. Universal basic income. No one left behind…
IEJ's Siyanda Baduza answers your questions South Africa’s social safety net is full of holes; millions are still trapped in poverty, hunger is rising, and too many people are excluded. This. Isn’t. Working. That’s why we’re calling for Universal Basic…
African economies rely heavily on women's unpaid and underpaid care work, including childcare, household maintenance, community support, and essential social reproduction. This work sustains families and national development but remains largely invisible in fiscal planning, social protection systems, and macroeconomic…
Across the world, governments are facing connected ecological, social, and economic crises. Climate change, biodiversity loss, widening inequality, debt distress, and unstable global supply chains are increasing pressure on countries to rebuild their productive systems in ways that are more…
This feminist popular education toolkit connects care work, food systems, and climate change, offering facilitators practical activities to support gender-just, community-led transformation across Southern Africa.
The G20 sits at a crossroads of purpose, legitimacy, and possibility. Since its elevation to a leaders' forum in 2008, the Group of Twenty (G20) has cemented its purpose as the primary platform for crisis response and macroeconomic coordination. When financial crises…
This fact sheet outlines how South Africa's Climate Change Act can be leveraged to transform the food system, ensuring justice, resilience, and inclusion for farmers, workers, women, youth, and households most affected by climate change.
Neil Coleman explores the global political economy shaping social protection and the fight for universal basic income, contrasting realities in the Global North and South and outlining the structural reforms needed to advance economic justice.
The IEJ is one of 165 co-signatories calling on President Ramaphosa to take decisive action on the debt crisis facing Africa and the Global South, urging reforms to ensure fair, transparent, and sustainable debt practices that protect essential services and human rights.