Basic Income Grant: An urgent case to the President and National Treasury
Amandla.mobi, in collaboration with Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA), hosted a panel discussion on Wednesday, 28 November 2026, to make a case for a Universal Basic Income Grant to President Ramaphosa and the National Treasury ahead of the 2026 SONA and Budget Speech. You can read more about it in the report here.
Minister Godongwana’s move to increase the VAT is an attack on the marginalised majority
Community organisation, amandla.mobi, is disappointed and concerned that Finance Minister Godongwana has continued with his aggressive move to ‘increase the VAT rate by half-a percentage point in 2025/26, and by another half-a-percentage point in the following year’. Lessons from the past show that increasing the VAT is not an effective solution to raising enough revenue, […]